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 Current Search - able in A Farewell to Arms
1  He ought to be able to do something.
A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway
Context   In BOOK 1: 10
2  We haven't been able to get the doctor.
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Context   In BOOK 2: 13
3  I had not been able to get the tobacco.
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Context   In BOOK 4: 34
4  "They ought to be able to hold at this river," Piani said.
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Context   In BOOK 3: 30
5  You won't be able to afford it every night, said the major.
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Context   In BOOK 1: 12
6  Up ahead I knew there was a railway bridge and I thought we might be able to get across there.
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Context   In BOOK 3: 30
7  He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget.
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Context   In BOOK 1: 3
8  As far as I could make out the last mile or so of the new road where it started to level out would be able to be shelled steadily by the Austrians.
A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway
Context   In BOOK 1: 5