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1  The door opened quietly and closed.
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2  They closed for an instant and then opened.
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3  All the catechisms were opened and all heads bent upon them silently.
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4  He leaned his elbows on the table and shut and opened the flaps of his ears.
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5  Then he heard the noise of the refectory every time he opened the flaps of his ears.
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6  A side door of the theatre opened suddenly and a shaft of light flew across the grass plots.
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7  He opened the geography to study the lesson; but he could not learn the names of places in America.
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8  He turned the handle and opened the door and fumbled for the handle of the green baize door inside.
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9  He heard the sob passing loudly down his father's throat and opened his eyes with a nervous impulse.
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10  He halted on the landing before the door and then, grasping the porcelain knob, opened the door quickly.
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11  Stephen, scarlet with shame, opened a book quickly with one weak hand and bent down upon it, his face close to the page.
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12  Sitting in the study hall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside from seventy-seven to seventy-six.
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13  It was like a train going in and out of tunnels and that was like the noise of the boys eating in the refectory when you opened and closed the flaps of the ears.
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14  It was the night of the match against the Bective Rangers; and the ball was made just like a red and green apple only it opened and it was full of the creamy sweets.
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15  Before he heard again the footboard of the housedoor trail over the threshold as it opened to let him in, before he saw again the table in the kitchen set for supper he would have knelt and confessed.
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16  When the gymnasium had been opened he had heard another voice urging him to be strong and manly and healthy and when the movement towards national revival had begun to be felt in the college yet another voice had bidden him be true to his country and help to raise up her language and tradition.
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17  Because on the day when he had made his first holy communion in the chapel he had shut his eyes and opened his mouth and put out his tongue a little: and when the rector had stooped down to give him the holy communion he had smelt a faint winy smell off the rector's breath after the wine of the mass.
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