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He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
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He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.
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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.
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He first deceased; she for a little tried to live without him, liked it not, and died.
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He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.
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He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.
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He had no special hobbies, but he needed luxury in general of a kind, and especially the luxury of getting things in a hurry, his theory being that everything comes to the man who won't wait.
Tenterhooks (1912) Ch. vii -
He had scarcely told the lie when his nose, which was already long, grew at once two fingers longer.
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He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.
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He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
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He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
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He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.
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He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president.
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He hath consumed a whole night in lying looking to his great toe, about which he hath seen Tartars and Turks, Romans and Carthaginians, fight in his imagination.
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