258. It is not necessary to say much about this tailor. D 259. Well, you would have to lay out a hundred and fifty. D 260. You ’d better go to him Sunday morning. D
261. I will make you a new coat famously. C 262. I shall certainly make you a new overcoat. C
263. Let it give way, and you can put on another patch at once. D 264. You would have to lay out a hundred and fifty or more. D 265. You’d better go to him Sunday morning. D
266. In order not to wear out his clothes, you must take them off as soon as he got home. D 267. You must wear only his cotton dressing-gown, which had been long and carefully saved.
D
268. It was necessary to go to the department. D
269. If you had been on the Nevsky Prospect, you would have charged seventy-five rubles for the making alone. D
270. In order that the host might not think of some excuse for detaining him, you went out of the room quietly. D
271. We decided to take up a collection for him on the spot. D
272. The “Collegiate Recorder” must announce to the government secretary, the government secretary to the titular councillor, or whatever other man was proper, and the business came before him in this manner. D
273. You might enter into correspondence with the chief superintendent of police, and find the coat. D
274. You would have gone to the head of the department, to the chief of the division. D
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275. You would have been handed over to the secretary, and the secretary would have given it to me. D
276. My dear, don’t waste your time on him: order his pine coffin now, for an oak one will be too expensive for him. D
24. The Music on the Hill by Saki. Published in 1912. Retrieved on www.world-english.org
277. I frankly told him in what situation I had found it. D
25. Peasant Wives by Anton Chekhov. First published in 1991. Translated by Constance Garnett. Last revised on 27 May 2003
278. You ought to count over Vasya's pigeons, to see none of them have strayed. D 279. I shall make him my clerk. C
280. If I have no children of my own, I'll make a merchant of him. Wherever I go now, I take him with me; let him learn his work. D
281. Folks will go their own way, and that's what comes of it. C 282. He doesn't remember his mother, I suppose. D
283. You'd better mind you don't get into trouble with such goings-on, my girl. D 284. Maybe, we shall catch it from Dyudya. D
285. You 'd make away with my Alyoshka and never regret it. D 286. You charge pretty heavily for the oats, my good man. D
26. Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville. First published in 1953. Retrieved on
March 26th 2012 by reading paradise on
http://readersandwritersparadise.com/bartleby
287. I determined again to postpone the consideration of this dilemma to my future leisure. D 288. I think I'll just step behind his screen and black his eyes for him! C
289. I thought it best to put on my hat and walk home for the day, suffering much from perplexity and distress of mind. D
290. Will you tell me anything about yourself? D
291. Could you copy a small paper for me this morning? D
292. Will you do anything at all to give a coloring to your refusal to depart the premises? D 293. Would you like a clerkship in a dry-goods store. D
294. Would you like to travel through the country collecting bills for the merchants? D 295. Surely you do not mean to persist in that mulish vagary? D
296. Would I not be justified in immediately dismissing Bartleby? D 297. Shall I go and black his eyes? D
298. Shall I acknowledge it? D
299. I thought I would walk round to my chambers for a while. D 300. Perhaps I had better walk about the block two or three times. D
301. It is evident enough that Bartleby has been making his home here, keeping bachelor's hall all by himself. D
302. I was quite sure he never visited any refectory or eating house. D
303. I would put certain calm questions to him the next morning touching his history, etc. D
xx 304. I would prefer to be left alone here. D
305. I thought to myself, surely I must get rid of a demented man. D 306. Would you not copy then? D
307. I shall not see you again; so good-bye to you. D
308. I could not but highly plume myself on my masterly management in getting rid of Bartleby. D
309. It was hardly possible that Bartleby could withstand such an application of the doctrine of assumptions. D
310. I would prefer not to quit you. D
311. You will not thrust such a helpless creature out of your door? D 312. You will not dishonor yourself by such cruelty? D
313. Surely you will not have him collared by a constable, and commit his innocent pallor to the common jail? D
314. I must quit him. D
315. I will change my offices. D
316. I will move elsewhere, and give him fair notice that if I find him on my new premises.
317. I certainly cannot inform you. D
318. You must take him away, sir, at once. D
319. Would you like to re-engage in copying for someone? D
27. Loveliest of Trees by A. E. Ho. Published in 1936. Retrieved on 6 May 2012 tiffanybelcher.blogspot.com/.../loveliest-of-trees-che
320. In order to give you an idea of the facts, you must go back to the commencement of the affair.
321. I begged my father to let me live with him and he was very kind to me in his way.
322. I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been woven round him. D
323. I was well convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an incident in my uncle's life. D
324. I was well convinced that the danger would be as pressing in one house as in another. D 325. You must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do you understand? C 326. I shall certainly go as you advise. C
327. Tomorrow I shall set to work upon your case. C
328. You should possess all knowledge which is likely to be useful to him in his work.
329. You may have to go down to Horsham, after all. D
28. The Rocking Horse Winner by D. H. Lawrence, published in 1926. Retrieved on www.world-english.org
330. I thought perhaps you might give me a tip for the Lincoln. D 331. You won't let it go any further, will you? C
332. I determined to take my nephew with him to the Lincoln races. D 333. I suppose we'll talk to Bassett. D
334. You'd better go to the seaside. D 335. I think you'd better go to the seaside. D 336. Wouldn't you like to go now to the seaside. D 337. I shall have to send Bassett away. D
338. I ask Uncle Oscar not to talk racing to you. D
339. You promise to go away to the seaside and forget it. D
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340. Don't go to the seaside till after the Derby, if you don't wish it. D
341. You had to leave the dance and go downstairs to telephone to the country. D 342. Shall I run up and look at him? C
29. A Wicked Woman by Jack London. Published in 1897. Retrieved on 5 Apr 2010 on www.world-english.org
30. The Adventure of The Sussex Vampire by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Published in 1924.
Retrieved on July 30th 2012 by Ordflyt on www.world-english.org
343. Are we to give serious attention to such things? D
344. I ask you to take it seriously, for a child's life and a man's sanity may depend upon it. D 345. I can assure you that I am very far from being at my wit's end. D
346. I should wish to have a word with you in private. V
347. You will permit me to handle the matter in my own way? D
348. If you will take one elbow of the too faithful Dolores, I will take the other. C 349. I think you may leave them to settle the rest among themselves. D
31. Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. This story was published in 1819-1820.
Retrieved on www.world-english.org
32. How the Leopard Got His Spots by Rudyard Kipling published in October 1901.
Retrieved on 11 May 2005 on www.world-english.org
350. My advice to you, Leopard, is to go into other spots as soon as you can. D 351. My advice to you, Ethiopian, is to change as soon as you can. D
352. Perhaps you 've forgotten what they were like. D
33. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Copper Beeches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in Strand Magazine in June 1892. Retrieved on18 Apr 2011 www.world- english.org
353. If you were asked to wear any dress which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. D
354. Perhaps you have yourself formed some opinion? D
355. I shall go down to Hampshire quite easy in my mind now. C
356. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester to-morrow. C
357. Will you come with me? D 358. I wish to come with you. V
359. Then perhaps you had better postpone my analysis of the acetones, as you may need to be at our best in the morning. D
360. I have promised Mr. Rucastle to be back before three. C
361. You must not think me rude if I passed you without a word, my dear young lady.
362. I'll throw you to the mastiff. C 363. You had better go in without him.D
364. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away. D
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34. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Boscombe Valley Mystery by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Year Published 1892. Retrieved on 27 Mar 2012 on www.world- english.org
365. If you keep the two corner seats I shall get the tickets. C 366. It is probable that I shall use the carriage to-night. C 367. I must go home now. D
368. Have you an order to see him in prison? D
369. I shall probably return to London by the evening train. C
35. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The Final Problem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Publication date, 1994. www.world-english.org
370. I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall. D
371. It the easier for me to propose that you should come away with me for a week to the continent. D
372. You have probably never heard of Professor Moriarty? D
373. I have been compelled to ask your permission to leave the house by some less conspicuous exit than the front door. D
374. You need find a small brougham waiting close to the curb, driven by a fellow with a heavy black cloak tipped at the collar with red. D
375. It was evident to me that you might bring trouble to the roof and impelled him to go. D 376. we must plan what we are to do about Moriarty now. D
377. we should have to wait an hour before we could get a train to Newhaven. D
36. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens published on 19 December 1843 on www.world-english.org
378. You will, therefore, permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. D
379. I have come to bring you home, dear brother. D 380. I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl. D
381. If you be like to die, you had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. D 382. I’ll offer to go if anybody else will. D
37. Ethan Brand by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It first published in Life in 1882, later republished in Argosy (UK) Jul 1931. Retrieved on 10 Sep 2011 onwww.sffaudio.com 383. I find it to be a heavy matter in my show-box. D