One Mad Bid for FreedomA Widly Hilarious Yet Ultimately Poignant Novel By Sri Lanka`S Finest Living English Language Novelist. |
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... took even the packing - cases people used to sit on . They took the shells and bits of driftwood and the coral and anything else there was . This was the story the tramps told people . To make the story seem true they added the extra ...
... took even the packing - cases people used to sit on . They took the shells and bits of driftwood and the coral and anything else there was . This was the story the tramps told people . To make the story seem true they added the extra ...
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... took in the scene in a quick glance and , suddenly , felt a surge of all his instinctual urges to kill , destroy , go on the rampage and explode — the kind of urges that people for a long time had come to associate with Van Hulft . He ...
... took in the scene in a quick glance and , suddenly , felt a surge of all his instinctual urges to kill , destroy , go on the rampage and explode — the kind of urges that people for a long time had come to associate with Van Hulft . He ...
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... took a look , in fact , at everyone assembled there , with his rugged , pitted face showing now distaste , now disgust , now abhorrence . The mad professor was still doing his dance of destruction . Van Hulft suddenly knew he had this ...
... took a look , in fact , at everyone assembled there , with his rugged , pitted face showing now distaste , now disgust , now abhorrence . The mad professor was still doing his dance of destruction . Van Hulft suddenly knew he had this ...
Common terms and phrases
asked beach become began believed bottle brain build Callay called coming common complete Conny creatures cried dead death decided Demos destroy direction discovered dropped especially excitement eyes face fact faithful feeling feet fellows felt final fish forces forms freedom friends gathered gave getting give gone hand head heard hold Hulft human ideas important inside island Kadalay Peiris kind knew known Korala Lanka later learned living looking marine mass memorial Mikhail mind moved naturalist needed never newspaper once original plans produced professor research station roar round rushing seemed shack shouting silence sitting sound stalwarts stand started stood story studied sudden suddenly talk tell things thought tion took truth trying Turab turned Van Hulft voice