• The middle-aged stranger whom I met by chance upon the lower rocks at Mary's Neck, that salt-washed promontory of the New England coast, was at first taciturn but became voluble when a little conversation developed the fact that we were both from the Midland country.

  Booth Tarkington
  American novelist and dramatist 1869-1946
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. conversation
2. salt-washed
3. promontory
4. developed
5. voluble
6. midland

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The middle-aged stranger whom I met by chance upon the lower rocks at Mary's Neck, that salt-washed promontory of the New England coast, was at first taciturn but became voluble when a little conversation developed the fact that we were both from the Midland country. by : Booth Tarkington

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