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Universal Dependencies - English - LinES

LanguageEnglish
ProjectLinES
Corpus Parttest
AnnotationAhrenberg, Lars
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The luggage was not waiting at the flag-draped and bunting-swathed entrance, where a picture of a huge Roman emperor Mweta, in a toga, smiled as he did in the old photograph of the Gala village football team. Mr. Kabata said, What's the matter with these people. Excuse me, I'll get a boy, and returned with the cases on the head of one of the stringy, splay-footed peasants who had always constituted the portering personnel. The porter addressed both men as Mukwayi, the respectful term became servile during the long time when it was used indiscriminately for any white man. There was an official pennant on the Volkswagen. Beside him, Kabata's strong thighs filled the seat. It's not too comfortable for a man your height, Colonel. The President will be expecting me to have come for you with the Mercedes, but, honestly, if I'd have waited to get it I would have turned up I don't know when. You know how it is just at the moment. Mrs. Indira Gandhi arrives this afternoon and yesterday it was United Nations and Sekou Toure. There were gilded arches over the old airport road to town; several men on bicycles wore shirts with Mweta's face printed in yellow and puce on their backs. He said, All very festive, but it was distraction; he had the feeling of listening inwardly, watching for something else.

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