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1  She does best, because she's a girl.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
2  "I haf done my best," she began suddenly.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
3  The best thing ye kin do is to go back, and when ye git into town ask a policeman.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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4  As it was half dark up above, perhaps one of the others had best go up first with a candle.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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5  What made all this the more painful was that it was so hard on the few that had really done their best.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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6  He had come to America as full of hope as the best of them; and now he was the chief problem that worried his son.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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7  Now Charlie had got leave from college, and had gone away in his automobile on the next best thing to a honeymoon.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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8  The agitation to break up the police protection of criminals was continuing, and it seemed to him best to "lay low" for the present.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
9  After that Jurgis did his best to please them, and to make up for the time he had lost before he discovered the extra bungholes of the campaign barrel.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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10  The best paid men, the "splitters," made fifty cents an hour, which would be five or six dollars a day in the rush seasons, and one or two in the dullest.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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11  On the uneven floor it was a task for a man to start one of these trucks, unless he was a giant; and when it was once started he naturally tried his best to keep it going.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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12  After a few drinks Goldberger began, with some hesitation, to narrate how he had had a quarrel over his best girl with a professional "cardsharp," who had hit him in the jaw.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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13  If they all combined, they would have enough to make the first payment; and if they had employment, so that they could be sure of the future, it might really prove the best plan.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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14  This floor was half an inch deep with blood, in spite of the best efforts of men who kept shoveling it through holes; it must have made the floor slippery, but no one could have guessed this by watching the men at work.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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15  They say that the best dog will turn cross if he be kept chained all the time, and it was the same with the man; he had not a thing to do all day but lie and curse his fate, and the time came when he wanted to curse everything.
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16  She understood now that the real reason that Miss Henderson hated her was that she was a decent married girl; and she knew that the talebearers and the toadies hated her for the same reason, and were doing their best to make her life miserable.
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17  It was one of the laws of the veselija that no one goes hungry; and, while a rule made in the forests of Lithuania is hard to apply in the stockyards district of Chicago, with its quarter of a million inhabitants, still they did their best, and the children who ran in from the street, and even the dogs, went out again happier.
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