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I believe there is a considerable range in the bang of most guns.
Gail Carriger
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Gail Carriger
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: May 4
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Bolinas
California
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...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!
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She had to give her teachers credit: they were right to insist all pupils carry scissors, handkerchiefs, perfume and hair ribbons at all times. At some point she'd learn why they also required a red lace doily and a lemon.
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Miss Tarabotti was not one of life's milk-water misses--in fact, quite the opposite. Many a gentleman had likened his first meeting with her to downing a very strong cognac when one was expecting to imbibe fruit juice--that is to say, startling and apt to leave one with a distinct burning sensation.
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Why did you want to go and distract me like that? I was quite in my element and everything.' Conall laughed. 'Someone has to keep you off balance otherwise you'll end up ruling the empire. Or at least ordering it into wretched submission.
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His lordship can eat my fat—
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Acknowledgements With grateful thanks to the three least-appreciated and hardest-working proselytizers of the written word: independent bookstores, librarians, and teachers.
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How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.
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