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Text 1: A short extract from John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men
(1)His eyes were very dark brown and there was a hint of brown pigment
in his eyeballs. (2)His cheek-bones were high and wide, and strong deep
lines cut down his cheeks, in curves beside his mouth. (3)His lower lip
was long, and since his teeth protruded, the lips stretched to cover them,
for this man kept his lips closed. (4)His hands were hard, with broad
fingers and nails as thick and ridged as little clam shells. (5)The space
between thumb and forefinger and the hams of his hands were shiny with
callus.
(John Steinbeck  ,
The Grapes of Wrath, Ch. 1)
Text 2: A short extract from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
(1)Mr Bingley was good-looking and gentleman-like; he had a pleasant
countenance, and easy, unaffected manners. (2)His sisters were fine women,
with an air of decided fashion. (3)His brother-in-law, Mr Hurst, merely
looked the gentleman; but his friend Mr Darcy soon drew the attention
of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien, and
the report, which was in general circulation within six minutes after
his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year. (4)The gentlemen pronounced
him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer
than Mr Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about
half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide
of his popularity: for he was discovered to be proud, to be above his
company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire
could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance,
and being unworthy to be compared with his friend.
(Jane Austen ,
Pride and Prejudice, Ch. 3)
Text 3: A short extract from D. H. Lawrence's The Virgin and the
Gypsy
(1)But Granny held her in her power. (2) And Aunt Cissie's one object
in life was to look after the Mater.
(3)Aunt Cissie's green flares of hellish hate would go up against all
young things, sometimes. (4)Poor thing, she prayed and tried to obtain
forgiveness from heaven.(5) But what had been done to her, she could not
forgive, and the vitriol would spurt in her veins sometimes.
(6)It was not as if Mater were a warm, kindly soul. (7)She wasn't. (8)She
only seemed it, cunningly. (9)And the fact dawned gradually on the girls.
(10)Under her old-fashioned lace cap, under her silver hair, this old
woman had a cunning heart, seeking for ever her own female power. (11)And
through the weakness of the unfresh, stagnant men she had bred, she kept
her power, as the years rolled on, from seventy to eighty, and from eighty
on the new lap, towards ninety.
(D.H. Lawrence ,
The Virgin and the Gypsy, Ch. 1)
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