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1  Then, hesitating, dribbled past.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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2  He strolled alone past the trees.
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3  She had come out on to the path that led past the greenhouse.
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4  Down in the dell, past the lily pool, the actors were undressing.
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5  This is the burden that the past laid on me, last little donkey in the long caravanserai crossing the desert.
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6  One hailed another, and they dispersed, across lawns, down paths, past the house to the gravel-strewn crescent, where cars, push bikes and cycles were crowded together.
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7  Shrivelling the shreds in lieu of words, for no words grow there, nor roses either, she swept past her conspirator, her semblable, the seeker after vanished faces "like Venus" he thought, making a rough translation, "to her prey."
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8  Tempted by the sight to continue her imaginative reconstruction of the past, Mrs. Swithin paused; she was given to increasing the bounds of the moment by flights into past or future; or sidelong down corridors and alleys; but she remembered her mother--her mother in that very room rebuking her.
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