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  1. I needed a drink. I needed a lot of life insurance. I needed a vacation. I needed a home in the country. What I had was a hat, a coat and a…
  2. She had a lot of face and chin. She had pewter-colored hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak, and large moist eyes with the sympath…
  3. 'They say money don't stink,' he said. 'I sometimes wonder.'
  4. He didn't curl his lip because it had been curled when he came in.
  5. He had a battered face that looked as if it had been hit by everything but the bucket of a dragline. It was scarred, flattened, thickened, …
  6. The little blonde at the PBX cocked a shell-like ear and smiled a small fluffy smile. She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of h…
  7. Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel f…
  8. I hung up. It was a step in the right direction, but it didn't go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hid under the desk.

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