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Page 81
... Sean O'Casey ) : There were the houses , too — a long , lurching row of discontented incurables , smirched with the age - long marks of ague , fevers , cancer , and consumption , the soured tears of little children , and the sighs of ...
... Sean O'Casey ) : There were the houses , too — a long , lurching row of discontented incurables , smirched with the age - long marks of ague , fevers , cancer , and consumption , the soured tears of little children , and the sighs of ...
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... Sean O'Casey was ruined by being rewritten in various forms of jargon . Now try the reverse procedure : find a dryly factual report or article in a social- science or psychological journal and bring it to life by reducing dead wood ...
... Sean O'Casey was ruined by being rewritten in various forms of jargon . Now try the reverse procedure : find a dryly factual report or article in a social- science or psychological journal and bring it to life by reducing dead wood ...
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... Sean O'Casey . Copyright 1949 by Sean O'Casey . The anecdote about the plumber and the hydrochloric acid entered this book by way of a wire - service story in February , 1947. It is probably older than that . " The purpose of this ...
... Sean O'Casey . Copyright 1949 by Sean O'Casey . The anecdote about the plumber and the hydrochloric acid entered this book by way of a wire - service story in February , 1947. It is probably older than that . " The purpose of this ...
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