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Jim__

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20. He stood in the mud: long, thin, brown in his doctor's gown of fur, with his black flapped cap ...

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Mon Apr 16, 2012, 12:22 PM

Apr 2012

He stood in the mud: long, thin, brown in his doctor's gown of fur, with his black flapped cap that buttoned well under his chin and let out his brown, lean, shaven and humorous face like a woodpecker's peering out of a hole in a tree.

The sentence is from Ford Madox Ford's The Fifth Queen. It's quoted in Willam H Gass's Life Sentences at the beginning of the chapter Narrative Sentences.

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