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1  You'd be able to have a look at it.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
ContextHighlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
2  would have been able to dissuade the whip-man.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Five The whip-man
3  It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - ...
4  So he said, "I am able to walk now," and stood up, shaking after becoming used to sitting so comfortably.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
5  By now, he had become used to the darkness in the room and was able to make out various fixtures and fittings.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
6  was able to do no more than throw the door shut, even though that would still do nothing to remove all the dangers he faced.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Five The whip-man
7  He remembered the usher who, despite everything, would have been able to lead him out of there but who seemed to have gone long before.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
8  , as he often had to do at the bank, forcibly reminded himself that the grin was not deliberate, that he in fact wasn't able to grin deliberately.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - ...
9  "I'm afraid I'll only be able to stay a few minutes more," smiled the office director as he spread himself out in the armchair and looked at the clock.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
10  , and he began to feel relaxed now that, at last, he stood in front of someone with some sense, someone with whom he would be able to talk about his situation.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - ...
11  "A woman's hands will do many things when no-one's looking," he thought, he might himself have smashed all the dishes on the spot but certainly would not have been able to carry it all out.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - ...
12  had called each of them, separately or all together, into his office that day for no other reason than to observe them; he was always satisfied and had always been able to let them go again.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - ...
13  None of this concerns me, and I am therefore able to make a calm assessment of it, and, assuming that this so-called court is of any real importance, it will be very much to your advantage to listen to what I have to say.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Two First Cross-examination
14  himself looked on calmly, he was not even disappointed at finding the lawyer unwell, he had been able to do nothing to oppose the enthusiasm his uncle had developed for the matter, he was glad that this enthusiasm had now been distracted without his having to do anything about it.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
15  In the end the office director stood up, as he had stayed far longer than he had originally intended, made his farewell, looked at me in sympathy without being able to help, he waited at the door for a long time although it's more than I can understand why he was being so good, and then he went.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Six K.'s uncle - Leni
16  , politely, but the man was startled at being spoken to unexpectedly, which was all the more pitiful to see because the man clearly had some experience of the world and elsewhere would certainly have been able to show his superiority and would not have easily given up the advantage he had acquired.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
17  So off I go running as fast as I can, shout the message through the crack in the door of the office I've been sent to, so out of breath they'll hardly be able to understand it, run back here again, but the student's been even faster than I have - well he's got less far to go, he's only got to run down the steps.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
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