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1  All this ingenious mixture was ground up and flavored with spices to make it taste like something.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
2  It was a ghost that would not drown; it followed him, it seized upon him and beat him to the ground.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
3  He is only about five feet high, but even so these trousers are about eight inches short of the ground.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
4  There were three or four inches of fresh snow on the ground, and the flakes were falling thick and fast.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
5  In a moment or two she reached the ground, angry and breathless, and they heard her coming into the room.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
6  It was let down to the ground, and there came the "headsman," whose task it was to sever the head, with two or three swift strokes.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
7  A little way farther on, and Jurgis and Ona, staring open-eyed and wondering, came to the place where this "made" ground was in process of making.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
8  When Jurgis started slowly across the street toward him, he gave a quick glance about, meditating retreat, but then he concluded to stand his ground.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
9  The great packing machine ground on remorselessly, without thinking of green fields; and the men and women and children who were part of it never saw any green thing, not even a flower.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
10  It impelled the visitor to questions and then the residents would explain, quietly, that all this was "made" land, and that it had been "made" by using it as a dumping ground for the city garbage.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
11  The last time, too, he lost his job, and that meant six weeks more of standing at the doors of the packing houses, at six o'clock on bitter winter mornings, with a foot of snow on the ground and more in the air.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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12  In the forests, all summer long, the branches of the trees do battle for light, and some of them lose and die; and then come the raging blasts, and the storms of snow and hail, and strew the ground with these weaker branches.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
13  From the doors of these rooms went men with loaded trucks, to the platform where freight cars were waiting to be filled; and one went out there and realized with a start that he had come at last to the ground floor of this enormous building.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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14  One of the consequences of this episode was that the first joints of three of the little boy's fingers were permanently disabled, and another that thereafter he always had to be beaten before he set out to work, whenever there was fresh snow on the ground.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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15  Having the advantage of her in altitude, the driver had stood his ground and even ventured to attempt to speak; and the result had been a furious altercation, which, continuing all the way down Ashland Avenue, had added a new swarm of urchins to the cortege at each side street for half a mile.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
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16  This dried material they would then grind to a fine powder, and after they had mixed it up well with a mysterious but inoffensive brown rock which they brought in and ground up by the hundreds of carloads for that purpose, the substance was ready to be put into bags and sent out to the world as any one of a hundred different brands of standard bone phosphate.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
17  On one side of the room were the hoppers, into which men shoveled loads of meat and wheelbarrows full of spices; in these great bowls were whirling knives that made two thousand revolutions a minute, and when the meat was ground fine and adulterated with potato flour, and well mixed with water, it was forced to the stuffing machines on the other side of the room.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
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