1 The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution.
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2 The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the best road.
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3 We are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs.
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4 The prefecture of police and the commission of health have done their best.
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5 Men who fall in there never re-appear; the best of swimmers are drowned there.
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6 Not a hundred years ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, and fared as best it might.
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7 Hence adaptations which were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated themselves as best they might.
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8 In the meantime, they remedy this defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are located in the vent of a cannon, by means of a searcher.
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9 And, as one knots one thread to another thread, he took up the line of march at his best pace in the direction which the man must follow, and set out across the thickets.
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10 Inquiry was made at that convent; the very best information and the most respectable references abounded; the good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never understood exactly of which of the two Fauchelevents Cosette was the daughter.
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