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1. Such was Feuilly's habitual text.
2. It was edited from the original text.
3. Some of the original text has survived.
4. Translate the text from Italian into English.
5. But when Leviathan is the text, the case is altered.

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 n.  written words; book prepared for use in schools or colleges
Classic Sentence: (27 in 2 pages)
1  He seemed to like to give to his thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of the other world.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
2  We think that we have here reproduced the thing in strict accordance with the text.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP
3  Such was Feuilly's habitual text.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
4  God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text written in a mysterious tongue.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
5  The most sagacious, the calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty translations on the public place.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
6  From each remaining springs a party, and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it alone has the true text, and each faction thinks that it possesses the light.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
7  He knew enough Greek to enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III—M. MABEUF
8  It was a negro church; and the preacher's text was about the blackness of darkness, and the weeping and wailing and teeth-gnashing there.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
9  There's another rendering now; but still one text.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
10  But when Leviathan is the text, the case is altered.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
11  "Wal, it seems quite as plain a text, stranger," said John the drover, "to poor fellows like us, now;" and John smoked on like a volcano.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  Father Purdon developed the text with resonant assurance.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
13  It was a text which might seem to the casual observer at variance with the lofty morality elsewhere preached by Jesus Christ.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
14  It was a text for business men and professional men.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
15  Such a book being there was wonderful enough; but still more astounding were the notes penciled in the margin, and plainly referring to the text.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
16  She strayed from the text in a few places to illustrate some of her more interesting points.
17  The newspaper printed the full text of the interview.
18  Translate the text from Italian into English.
19  Make any necessary corrections before the text is printed.
20  Click this option to right-justify the selected text.
21  The original text has been modified so radically that it is barely recognizable.
22  It was edited from the original text.
23  Some of the original text has survived.
24  The interpolation appears to have been inserted very soon after the original text was finished.
25  When text is saved from a Web page, it is often very badly formatted with many short lines.
26  I love waking up and seeing text messages on my phone.
27  Highlight the area of text on screen and press the 'delete' key.
28  Read the text naturally; don't strain after effects.
29  Hand symbols in the main body of the text cross - refer the reader to the appendices.
30  The screen can display simple graphics as well as text.