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1  It was a long, narrow room, with a gallery along it for visitors.
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2  She works in a canning factory, and all day long she handles cans of beef that weigh fourteen pounds.
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3  They climbed a long series of stairways outside of the building, to the top of its five or six stories.
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4  One of them had been stolen long ago, and not a month passed that some one did not try to steal another.
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5  Here was a great hole, perhaps two city blocks square, and with long files of garbage wagons creeping into it.
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6  Before long it occurs to some one to demand an old wedding song, which celebrates the beauty of the bride and the joys of love.
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7  Here and there ran long alleys, blocked at intervals by gates; and Jokubas told them that the number of these gates was twenty-five thousand.
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8  All night long this had been going on, and now the pens were full; by tonight they would all be empty, and the same thing would be done again.
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9  He nods and shakes his head at his companions, jerking at them with his violin, until at last the long form of the second violinist also rises up.
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10  Some were white hogs, some were black; some were brown, some were spotted; some were old, some young; some were long and lean, some were monstrous.
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11  Entering one of the Durham buildings, they found a number of other visitors waiting; and before long there came a guide, to escort them through the place.
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12  One could not stand and watch very long without becoming philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog squeal of the universe.
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13  After this there is beer for every one, the musicians included, and the revelers take a long breath and prepare for the great event of the evening, which is the acziavimas.
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14  There was a long line of hogs, with squeals and lifeblood ebbing away together; until at last each started again, and vanished with a splash into a huge vat of boiling water.
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15  There was a long rest for the orchestra, and plenty of refreshments, while Marija was making her peace with her victim, seating him upon the bar, and standing beside him and holding to his lips a foaming schooner of beer.
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16  One never saw the fields, nor any green thing whatever, in Packingtown; but one could go out on the road and "hobo it," as the men phrased it, and see the country, and have a long rest, and an easy time riding on the freight cars.
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17  All day long the children of Aniele were raking in the dump for food for these chickens; and sometimes, when the competition there was too fierce, you might see them on Halsted Street walking close to the gutters, and with their mother following to see that no one robbed them of their finds.
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