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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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• Lady Maccon.” “By George, Boots! How the deuce can you possibly tell that there is Lady Maccon?” queried the other top-hated gentleman. “Who else would be standing in the middle of a street on full-moon night with a raging ruddy fire behind her, waving a parasol about?” “Good point, good point.

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  Moon, Night, Fire

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• Alexia, did you know there is an entire regiment decamping on your front lawn? Laddy Maccon sighed. "Really, Ivy, I would never have noticed.

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  Ivy, Lawns, Knows

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• The voice was low and tinged with a hint of Scotland. It would have caused Alexia to shiver and think primal monkey thoughts about moons and running far and fast, if she'd had a soul. Instead it caused her to sigh in exasperation and sit up.

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  Running, Moon, Thinking

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• Alphas simply did not grovel; arrogance was part of the job description.

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  Jobs, Arrogance, Description

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• Lyall had spent centuries nibbling about the great layered cake that was polite society while Lord Akeldama acted the part of the frosting on its top.

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  Cake, Nibbling, Lord

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.166, Hachette UK

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• Such poopitations of the heart as you would not believe.

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  Believe, Heart

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• His lordship can eat my fat—

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  Fats, Lordship

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• She reached inside the wide ruffle and pulled out a little vial. “Poison?” asked Lady Maccon, tilting her head to one side. “Certainly not. Something far more important: perfume. We cannot very well have you fighting crime unscented, now, can we?” “Oh.” Alexia nodded gravely. After all, Madame Lefoux was French. “Certainly not.

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  Fighting, Important, Ruffles

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• Ooo,” said Alexia, fascinated, “it shrinks back down again. The books didn't detail that occurrence.” The earl laughed. “You must show me these books of yours.

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  Book, Details, Said

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• Hello, princess,” said Lord Maccon to the vampire. “Got yourself into quite a pickle this time, didn't you?” Lord Akeldama looked him up and down. “My sweet young naked boy, you are hardly one to talk. Not that I mind, of course.

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  Sweet, Princess, Boys

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• Follow that porcupine!

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  Porcupines

  Gail Carriger (2011). “Heartless: Book 4 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.150, Hachette UK

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• I have died and gone to the land of bad novels.

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  Land, Gone, Novel

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• His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream.

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  Eye, Peculiar, Eclairs

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• I believe the defining moment was when certain persons, who shall remain nameless, objected to my fuchsia silk striped waistcoat. I loved that waistcoat. I put my foot down, right then and there; I do not mind telling you!" To punctuate his deeply offended feelings, he stamped one silver-and-pearl-decorated high heel firmly. "No one tells me what I can and cannot wear!" He snapped up a lace fan from where it lay on a hall table and fanned himself vigorously with it for emphasis.

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  Believe, High Heels, Feet

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