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1  So, as the wheel turned, a hog was suddenly jerked off his feet and borne aloft.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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2  When the song is over, it is time for the speech, and old Dede Antanas rises to his feet.
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3  He is only about five feet high, but even so these trousers are about eight inches short of the ground.
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4  There is also, not six feet from your back, the bar, where you may order all you please and do not have to pay for it.
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5  At the head there was a great iron wheel, about twenty feet in circumference, with rings here and there along its edge.
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6  There were groups of cattle being driven to the chutes, which were roadways about fifteen feet wide, raised high above the pens.
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7  There were some with hose which threw jets of boiling water upon it, and others who removed the feet and added the final touches.
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8  It was nearly two feet long, printed on calendered paper, with a selection of colors so bright that they shone even in the moonlight.
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9  The house had a basement, about two feet below the street line, and a single story, about six feet above it, reached by a flight of steps.
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10  Some do not dance anything at all, but simply hold each other's hands and allow the undisciplined joy of motion to express itself with their feet.
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11  The room is about thirty feet square, with whitewashed walls, bare save for a calendar, a picture of a race horse, and a family tree in a gilded frame.
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12  Along one side of the room ran a narrow gallery, a few feet from the floor; into which gallery the cattle were driven by men with goads which gave them electric shocks.
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13  The company takes up the choruses, and men and women cry out like all possessed; some leap to their feet and stamp upon the floor, lifting their glasses and pledging each other.
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14  From such things as feet, knuckles, hide clippings, and sinews came such strange and unlikely products as gelatin, isinglass, and phosphorus, bone black, shoe blacking, and bone oil.
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15  Then, too, a still more dreadful thing happened to him; he worked in a place where his feet were soaked in chemicals, and it was not long before they had eaten through his new boots.
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16  You can feel them in the air round about him, capering frenetically; with their invisible feet they set the pace, and the hair of the leader of the orchestra rises on end, and his eyeballs start from their sockets, as he toils to keep up with them.
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17  There was a building in which the bristles were cleaned and dried, for the making of hair cushions and such things; there was a building where the skins were dried and tanned, there was another where heads and feet were made into glue, and another where bones were made into fertilizer.
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