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Quotes from Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
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1  From the grass rose a fresh earthy smell.
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2  And the butterfly rose and the bluebottle.
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3  Her head, pearl-hung, rose from a vast ruff.
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4  He knocked the ash off his cheroot and rose.
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5  The words rose and pointed a finger of scorn at him.
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6  Candish paused in the dining-room to move a yellow rose.
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7  They rose, became menacing and shook their fists at you.
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8  Suddenly, up they rose in a flutter, circled, and flew away.
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9  Now may I pluck," Isa murmured, picking a rose, "my single flower.
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10  He rose with a jerk, like a toy suddenly pulled straight by a string.
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11  Some rose briskly; others stooped, retrieving walking-sticks, hats, bags.
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12  But Isa, though she should have risen at the same moment that Mrs. Haines rose, sat on.
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13  Allowing ten seconds to intervene, she rose; paused; and then, as if she had heard the last strain die out, offered Mrs. Giles Oliver her hand.
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14  The ghost of convention rose to the surface, as a blush or a tear rises to the surface at the pressure of emotion; so the car touched his training.
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15  Then the wind rose, and in the rustle of the leaves even the great words became inaudible; and the audience sat staring at the villagers, whose mouths opened, but no sound came.
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16  And before Mrs. Sands had time to peel the paper off, he was gone, giving a slap to the very fine yellow cat who rose majestically from the basket chair and advanced superbly to the table, winding the fish.
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17  In her yellow robe, leaning, with a pillar to support her, a silver arrow in her hand, and a feather in her hair, she led the eye up, down, from the curve to the straight, through glades of greenery and shades of silver, dun and rose into silence.
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