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Universal Dependencies - English - LinES

LanguageEnglish
ProjectLinES
Corpus Parttest
AnnotationAhrenberg, Lars
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Today they were loading nylon stockings, Monroe look-alikes stamped all over the cardboard boxes. 'I came here to meet ...' He had risen in the world and now he was going to prove it. On board my grandmother unpacked her carpet bag. She set out a pile of clean rags, the ones she used for polishing the brass plaques, a bottle of cooking brandy, a bottle of iodine, a primus stove, a cylinder of water, a kitchen knife, a packet of sandwiches, a little blanket from the dog's box, her spectacles and the Bible, now open towards the end of the Psalms. This done, she took off her oilskin and pegged it over the hatch. I had her letter in my pocket. The careful handwriting. The instruction to obey. 'I will meet you on Wednesday the 12th at 6:30 p.m. in the bar at the Algonquin Hotel.' He knew the gangmen and the loaders and the truck drivers and the harbour pilots, and as he leaned on his rail, watching, sometimes waving, other men joined him, lit a cigarette, told him the news and with a slap on the back, moved on.

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