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1  He dropped back into his seat and hid his face in his hands.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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2  She raised distressed eyes to his, her work dropping on the table between them.
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3  Half-way down there was a sudden drop, then a rise, and after that another long delirious descent.
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4  Ethan's hand dropped from the door-knob, which he had held clenched since he had drawn the door shut on Mattie.
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5  As they entered it the breeze fell and a warm stillness seemed to drop from the branches with the dropping needles.
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6  As they entered it the breeze fell and a warm stillness seemed to drop from the branches with the dropping needles.
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7  "I'll have to hurry up to do it," Ethan mused, as the sleigh dropped down ahead of him over the dip of the school-house hill.
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8  It was strange that the girl did not seem aware of it: that she could lift her rapt face to her dancer's, and drop her hands into his, without appearing to feel the offence of his look and touch.
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9  She had measured out some drops from a medicine-bottle on a chair by the bed and, after swallowing them, and wrapping her head in a piece of yellow flannel, had lain down with her face turned away.
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10  They had reached the point where the road dipped to the hollow by Ethan's mill and as they descended the darkness descended with them, dropping down like a black veil from the heavy hemlock boughs.
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11  He drew up to the table again and she sewed on in silence, with dropped lashes, while he sat in fascinated contemplation of the way in which her hands went up and down above the strip of stuff, just as he had seen a pair of birds make short perpendicular flights over a nest they were building.
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