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  • I sud-denly recollected as we drove on our way that my father had said he had once stopped by there and left a five-dollar bill on a bureau in a bungalow rented by F. Scott F.tzgerald, who was lying on the bed nearly passed out.

    Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001

  • "You needn't be," he said, speaking slowly and carefully ... for sud-denly all the wrong words wanted to come tumbling out of his mouth.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • He sud-denly realized he could smell decaying animals.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • "Got another one of those condensers?" he asked, sud-denly.

    The Moon Pool 1919

  • But when these variously constituted human particles are sud-denly thrown broadcast on the sea of life, some swim, some sink, and some hang suspended, to be forced up or down by the chance currents of a busy hurrying world.

    The Souls of Black Folk 1903

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