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If Tahlmute had noticed he was glad he didn't get charged that much for the Brazilian crate and set to work on the cargo without having to be told, Taktor probably would have stayed and help unload the cargo also
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Nine heads simultaneously bowed over the pages of questions and essay topics and set to work
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He woke it up and it set to work
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She decided that the 'session ID' was really just that and set to work trying to get one open
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So Janice set to work, knowing that she had to do what she could, but also knowing that there was less than little chance that this brave young man would last the night
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The best she could do was stretch her chain toward the nearest ewe, kneel by its side, and set to work filling the basin
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‘Same as if he had a bone in his throat,’ said the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking him and punching him in the back
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As soon as the jury had a little recovered from the shock of being upset, and their slates and pencils had been found and handed back to them, they set to work very diligently to write out a history of the accident, all except the Lizard, who seemed too much overcome to do anything but sit with its mouth open, gazing up into the roof of the court
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Many of the houses in the principal street were highly embellished, the walls being stuccoed in red, and finished in white; but with all this decoration there was still the filth and stench, and the hundreds of carriers were at once set to work to thoroughly cleanse and clear the end of the town occupied by the troops
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'Same as if he had a bone in his throat,' said the Gryphon: and it set to work shaking him and punching him in the back
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Zinsmann set to work demonstrating how to dismantle and reassemble each of the weapons, with Colling interpreting his instructions
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He presented himself to Henry, who welcomed him stiffly (they already knew each other and were not friends), then set to work dealing with any health problems in our tumen
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We got back late in the afternoon and set to work on the deer
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The rest of the Ordu returned with their winter meat and set to work on it, so Aspenquid had to go back on duty
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He took in the scene without a word and set to work at Virginia’s shackles
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the organized band of invisible helpers was founded and set to work
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We immediately set to work preparing our uniforms, boots, and guns for the inspection
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Reluctantly, he set to work
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Star set to work cleaning up as Max had directed and stayed overnight
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Millie set to work on the cuffs
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I set to work immediately and armed only with pen and paper, created several new designs
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Halfshaft had set to work as soon as he entered the chamber
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He put the bear out of its misery, then set to work freeing his weapon
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Mordan sat next to him and together they set to work
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But by no frame of reference were these normal dogs, for they stood upright, wearing baggy trunks and high-top sneakers, and they promptly set to work preparing themselves, tugging on gloves and bobbing and weaving and dancing foot to foot while playing one off the other
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headlines (some master copywriters write 150 headlines), before they set to work on the ad itself
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By the time Caesar stumbled into the small barrel-cramped room, Johnny had already set to work undoing his twenty year long sobriety stretch
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When we arrived at the Reform League headquarters, the clerks and girls had already set to work, and the office was a hive of industry in the rush of winding up the campaign
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Within two weeks they had completed the double cabin for Zygmunt and the man quickly set to work in his chemical shop as he concocted various recipes for gunpowder employing different varieties of charcoal and ratios of the other ingredients
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The dwarves are set to work in First Delve at Devil’s Mouth by Satania
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Ariella set to work on one of the dummies, going through the practice steps she had been taught
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Even though the main construction would not begin till next May, we soldiers were set to work right away, clearing the site of rubbish—the place had been used like a midden-heap for decades
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So I set to work as a pastime with no deadlines and as lovingly and hopefully as a sculptor works at his block of marble or a writer at his novel
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I dried the hair a little more and I set to work
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The men dutifully set to work on fulfilling her request
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As Jessie set to work on his daily duties of: teeth, hair, cigarette and food; Will was busying himself making breakfast with a nice cup of tea to follow
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methodically set to work with the finer details of his intended action
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Why, he did not foresee obstacles, perhaps! And how did he set to work? He took jewels worth ten or twenty roubles, stuffing his pockets with them, ransacked the old woman's trunks, her rags--and they found fifteen hundred roubles, besides notes, in a box in the top drawer of the chest! He did not know how to rob; he could only murder
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He had still by him one or two short tales of the same vintage as those he had inserted in "Don Quixote" and instead of continuing the adventures of Don Quixote, he set to work to write more of these "Novelas Exemplares" as he afterwards called them, with a view to making a book of them
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The ease with which he had knocked it to pieces disconcerted him somewhat, and to guard against that danger he set to work again, fixing bars of iron on the inside until he was satisfied with its strength; and then, not caring to try any more experiments with it, he passed it and adopted it as a helmet of the most perfect construction
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The dervish likewise set to work, but I soon noticed that he confined himself to
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The man listened to the clicking of the machine for a few minutes and then set to work to finish his copy
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Without waiting to clean the mud off his clothes, he ordered Budd, the pimply-faced shopman, to get out rolls of all the sixpenny papers they had, and then they both set to work and altered the price marked upon them from sixpence to a shilling
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Men will be given employment making bricks, woodwork, paints, glass, wallpapers and all kinds of building materials and others will be set to work building - on State land - beautiful houses, which will be let to those employed in the service of the State
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I pulled out my maps and traced a route I could hitchhike back to the PCT and then set to work trying to get a ride, feeling self-conscious in my metal-gray boots made of tape
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energy, set to work
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When he heard that the King was ill and that Rabscuttle had done "After five days Rabscuttle slipped out again with the children and came back all he wanted, El-ahrairah set to work to disguise himself
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They set to work to that would emerge inside the wood
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So they set to work in one of the big yellow rooms of the castle and worked for three days and four nights, hammering and twisting and bending and soldering and polishing and pounding at the legs and body and head of the Tin Woodman, until at last he was straightened out into his old form, and his joints worked as well as ever
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The same morning the man set to work to dig out the doe and her growing litter
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Groundsel set to work along the bank, while Vervain went into the wood, where the mouths of the holes lay between the tree roots
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The Radio Tokyo men brought him pen and paper, and he set to work
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If she had set to work on the real platform, the N
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She always set to work on it at depressed moments, and now she knitted at it nervously, twitching her fingers and counting the stitches
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Seeing the master, the laborer, Vassily, went towards the cart, while Mishka set to work sowing
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After that she drove back to her place and set to work with the encrypted N
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‘No need of anything,’ she said to herself, and closing her blotting-case she went upstairs, told the governess and the servants that she was going that day to Moscow, and at once set to work to pack up her things
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On waking up the day after the races, Vronsky put on a white linen coat, and without shaving or taking his bath, he distributed about the table moneys, bills, and letters, and set to work
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historical, realistic, or genre painting—he set to work to paint
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In old times, you see, a man who wanted to educate himself—a Frenchman, for instance—would have set to work to study all the classics and theologians and tragedians and historiaris and philosophers, and, you know, all the intellectual work that came in his way
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And since she had not the slightest doubt that it was her duty to help him, she had no doubt either that it was possible, and immediately set to work
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But from the time that after Karenin’s trouble she took him under her special protection, from the time that she set to work in Karenin’s household looking after his welfare, she felt that all her other attachments were not the real thing, and that she was now genuinely in love, and with no one but Karenin
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Finally I set to work in earnest upon the trunk, taking turn and turn with Lord John
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The apemen laughed too—or at least they put up the devil of a cacklin'—and they set to work to drag us off through the forest
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I set to work that very day
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"It's a pity, brother, that you did not set to work in the right way at first
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Why, he did not foresee obstacles, perhaps! And how did he set to work? He took jewels worth ten or twenty roubles, stuffing his pockets with them, ransacked the old woman's trunks, her rags—and they found fifteen hundred roubles, besides notes, in a box in the top drawer of the chest! He did not know how to rob; he could only murder
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In the interval which elapsed before the calves were sold there was, of course, little milking to be done, but as soon as the calf had been taken away the milkmaids would have to set to work as usual
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But Tess set to work
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Putting on their gloves, all set to work in a row in front of the press, an erection formed of two posts connected by a cross-beam,
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When I was quite sure that there was no hope for us from Christine Daae's side, when I had heard the monster dragging the poor girl from the Louis-Philippe room LEST SHE SHOULD INTERFERE WITH OUR TORTURES, I resolved to set to work without delay
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power that set to work on its keeper at once
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’ That was all he thought about yesterday’s ball, and after his morning tea he set to work
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The count moved in his affairs as in a huge net, trying not to believe that he was entangled but becoming more and more so at every step, and feeling too feeble to break the meshes or to set to work carefully and patiently to disentangle them
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When the times comes to set to work I shall do it as no one else could, but now I can jest, and the more I jest and the calmer I am the more tranquil and confident you ought to be, and the more amazed at my genius
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After dinner the whole Rostov household set to work with enthusiastic haste packing their belongings and preparing for their departure
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Natasha, with the ardor characteristic of all she did suddenly set to work too
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When Natasha set to work two cases were standing open in the ballroom, one almost full up with crockery, the other with carpets
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She at once set to work afresh and they now trusted her completely
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Having unwound the string that tied the band on one leg, he carefully coiled it up and immediately set to work on the other leg, glancing up at Pierre
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The beasts were corralled in the stockyards of the railway, and they set to work to load them into trains; this took about three days
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Then he set to work
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He set to work
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He set to work to eat up the money for these copies
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Thus relieved of a grievous load, I from that hour set to work afresh, resolved to pioneer my way through every difficulty: I toiled hard, and my success was proportionate to my efforts; my memory, not naturally tenacious, improved with practice; exercise sharpened my wits; in a few weeks I was promoted to a higher class; in less than two months I was allowed to commence French and drawing
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The first was from the Admiral to inform his nephew, in a few words, of his having succeeded in the object he had undertaken, the promotion of young Price, and enclosing two more, one from the Secretary of the First Lord to a friend, whom the Admiral had set to work in the business, the other from that friend to himself, by which it appeared that his lordship had the very great happiness of attending to the recommendation of Sir Charles; that Sir Charles was much delighted in having such an opportunity of proving his regard for Admiral Crawford, and that the circumstance of Mr
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He set to work at once to get into touch with the other boats, calling to them and getting as close as seemed wise, so that when the search boats came in the morning to look for us, there would be more chance for all to be rescued by keeping together
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fusca), and she instantly set to work, fed and saved the survivors; made some cells and tended the larvae, and put all to rights
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Then he set to work to teach the Indians how these metals could be melted and made into knives and plows and water-pipes and all manner of things
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Count Daru and the Prince of Neufchâtel set to work with the others; but the Emperor’s handwriting was extremely difficult to decipher, for he was writing at the rate of an order a minute
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‘It’s a pity, brother, that you did not set to work in the right way at first
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So he threw away his coat and pulled off his shirt, which he proceeded to cut in strips with his sword, and set to work to re-bandage our wounds
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Savéliitch cleared his throat with a cough, and set to work to explain matters
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No doubt Vassin was extremely polite to his visitors, but probably every gesture he made told them plainly, " I will spend an hour and a half with you, and afterward^, when you go away, I'll set to work
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On coming out I set to work at once to look for lodgings; but I was preoccupied
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I will set to work this very day, for you have quite a satisfactory diploma too
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She soothed her mistress, assured her that everything would come round (it was her expression, and Matvey had borrowed it from her), and without fuss or hurry proceeded to set to work herself
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"No need of anything," she said to herself, and closing her blotting-case she went upstairs, told the governess and the servants that she was going that day to Moscow, and at once set to work to pack up her things
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He set to work at once with the utmost gravity, he listened to some reports and explanations, settled doubtful points
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When you went away this afternoon I set to work at once and have already invented three systems, now I am preparing the fourth
