the matelot gave the order to abandon ship

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a person of astonishing energy (he gives

his opinion without trying to be dogmatic)

a person against whom criticism

or abuse is or may be directed

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promptness was not one of her virtues

the general (he must ensure public order in a country threatened with anarchy)

unbalanced but only today

(his humorous kitschiness makes a statement of serious wealth)

the sailing hungarian

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liking for specified things

(her more libertine impulses)

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sybarite (the puritan ethic was being replaced

by the hedonist ethic)

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a person who is at home in any country

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madame le docteur (is graveled by

the inquisitiveness of a child)

she has no problem with shopping on Sundays

(she does have a fine sense of comic timing)

trouble arrived in the person of a short, bespectacled foreigner

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infinity (the proposition that all men are created equal)

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paranoid harlequin (behaviour cannot

develop independently of the environment)

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obsession with fresh air was a bad tenet

of the ideology (his theory would be that

the place has been seriously mismanaged)

…normally well-ordered life in red top

botanist (with the first frost, he could smell

a change in the days)

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aggregations of crystals formed in

the urinary tract

philanthropist (one must see the beauty in what one has)

…he is pontificating about art and history

at all times

…filed the cards in alphabetical order

he slouched into his seat to avoid drawing attention to himself

suffering in silence with a bird on his shoulder

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jester (addict has no morals and cannot be relied on)

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solitude (she tried to put her shattered thoughts into some resemblance of balance)

“von futurist” would have been a phenomenon in any age

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she used her mother’s kitchen

in order that the turkey might be properly cooked

the grand hotelier

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…resign over a matter of principle

(it is standard practice in museums to register objects as they are acquired)

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