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It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.

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Husband, School, Evil

Gail Carriger (2013). “Etiquette and Espionage: Number 1 in series”, p.85, Hachette UK

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I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

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Book, Differences, Needs

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I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.

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Ladybugs

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How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

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Thinking, Doors, People

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She took a moment to lament her lack of parasol. Every time she left the house, she felt keenly the absence of her heretofore ubiquitous accessory.

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House, Accessories, Moments

Gail Carriger (2012). “Timeless: Book 5 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.29, Hachette UK

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Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

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Irreparable Harm, Causes, Harm

Gail Carriger (2012). “Timeless: Book 5 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.102, Hachette UK

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[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing.

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Lost

Gail Carriger (2011). “Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.27, Hachette UK

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One should do what one is best at on as large a scale as possible.

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Should, Scales

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Scotsmen, she had occasion to observe, often did have nice knees. Perhaps that was why they insisted upon kilts.

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Nice, Kilts, Knees

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She boasted the general battle-ax demeanor of an especially strict governess. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after midnight, played a mean game of cribbage, and kept a bevy of repulsive little dogs. Alexia liked her immediately.

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Dog, Mean, Games

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What if all those strange and unexplainable bends in history were the result of supernatural interference? At which point I asked myself, what's the weirdest most eccentric historical phenomenon of them all? Answer:the Great British Empire. Clearly, one tiny little island could only conquer half the known world with supernatural aid. Those absurd Victorian manners and ridiculous fashions were obviously dictated by vampires. And, without a doubt, the British army regimental system functions on werewolf pack dynamics.

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Fashion, Army, Islands

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Rail is such an undignified way to travel. All that rapid racing about. Floating has so much more gravitas.

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Racing, Floating, Way

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Such poopitations of the heart as you would not believe.

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Believe, Heart

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A woman, even a married woman, cannot float without proper escort. It is simply not done.

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Done, Married, Married Women

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Floote, what is going on? Do they think I am contagious? Should I assure them I was born with a nose this size?

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Thinking, Noses, Size

Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.113, Hachette UK

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Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone has to keep you off balance; otherwise you'll end up ruling the empire. Or at least ordering it into wretched submission.

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Balance, Elements, Want

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Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism to consider childbirth magical or emotionally transporting. So far as she could gather it mostly involved pain indignity and mess. There was nothing engaging or appealing about the process. And as she told her husband firmly she intended never to go through it again.

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Pain, Husband, Soul

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What have I done thins time?" he paused to ask before continuing with his oral expedition about her body: her husband, the intrepid explorer.

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Husband, Done, Body

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Tunstell, this is your Alpha speaking. Do as I tell you. You must regurgitate now. Regurgitation is an involuntary action. You cannot simply order me to do it,” replied Tunstell in a small voice. “I most certainly can. Besides which, you are an actor.” Tunstell grimaced. “I’ve never had cause to vomit onstage.

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Order, Voice, Actors

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...Tunstell was not what one could describe as call subtle. His flaming red hair bobbed up with each pointed and articulated footstep as though he were some cloaked Gothic villain creeping across a stage.

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Hair, Red, Gothic

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He nuzzled in at her neck kissing and licking her softly just below her ear. “Just a moment ” he said. “I need a small reminder that you are here you are whole and you are mine.

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Kissing, Needs, Ears

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Alexia gave in to his demanding touch, but only, of course, because he sounded so pathetic. It had nothing, whatsoever to do with her own quickening heartbeat.

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Heartbeat, Quickening, Courses

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They decided the mummy would be unwrapped, for the titillation of the ladies, just after dinner.

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Would Be, Dinner, Mummy

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Madame Lefoux shrugged. "I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely different matter.

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Mean, Technology, Different

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His eyes were jet-colored circles of perpetual disapproval.

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Eye, Circles, Disapproval

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