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Robinson Crusoe
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  • Like Robinson Crusoe stranded on the Isle of Despair, the Count would maintain his resolve by committing to the business of practicalities.†   (source)
  • Robinson Crusoe!†   (source)
  • I wanted to read Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • He shoved the two stools together and laid Robinson Crusoe on the table.†   (source)
  • The book was Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • I snuck into the library and took a book from the shelves—a story called Robinson Crusoe by Mr. Defoe.†   (source)
  • Every house has only a single square room and a thatched roof, under which might dwell the likes of Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • These poor people, washed ashore like Robinson Crusoe, making do without croissants.†   (source)
  • Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being.†   (source)
  • Like Robinson Crusoe's discovery of footprints on the sand.†   (source)
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  • Later, when he got a few pages into Robinson Crusoe, she thought, "No!†   (source)
  • I really can't get over how similar it is to Robinson Crusoe at times, especially when he on the ship to Lilliput.†   (source)
  • I had Billy Budd, Martin Eden, Treasure Island, Heart of Darkness, The Odyssey, Robinson Crusoe, and the Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy.†   (source)
  • With him sat the half-troll X, the redhead Mallory Keen, and a guy I guessed was Halfborn Gunderson, who looked like Robinson Crusoe on steroids.†   (source)
  • His memoir, An Historical Relation, was used by Defoe as a psychological source for the ever inquisitive Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • But for the rest of us in the town, who needed shops and services—a few Belgians, some Greeks and Italians, a handful of Indians—it was a stripped, Robinson Crusoe kind of existence.†   (source)
  • What happiness, to work from dawn to dusk for your family and for yourself, to build a roof over their heads, to till the soil to feed them, to create your own world, like Robinson Crusoe, in imitation of the Creator of the universe, and, as your own mother did, to give birth to yourself, time and again.†   (source)
  • Friday — that's what Robinson Crusoe named him doesn't kneel anymore."†   (source)
  • It had been months since I dug into the story of Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • Besides," I held up Robinson Crusoe, "look at the pleasure you'll miss."†   (source)
  • He remembered Robinson Crusoe and his man Friday.†   (source)
  • And I began to get into Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • Afterwards, for the first time in weeks, he took down Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • Was this Attean's answer, in case Matt had any idea in his head about being a Robinson Crusoe?†   (source)
  • He felt richer than Robinson Crusoe with all the plunder from that sunken ship.†   (source)
  • "They're even better than Robinson Crusoe," he promised.†   (source)
  • Come to think of it, Robinson Crusoe had lived like a king on that desert island!†   (source)
  • As soon as he could, he picked up Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • He opened Robinson Crusoe at the first page and began to read.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it had been Robinson Crusoe, or the tramping through the woods together.†   (source)
  • Impatiently they hurried through the lessons to get on with Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • Sometimes he even took a fancy to a word out of Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • "Robinson Crusoe looks out and sees that part of the ship hasn't sunk yet.†   (source)
  • Even back then I knew some gentlemen in high places that could have helped me scrounge up the plane fare, and then before you could say Jack Robinson Crusoe I'd have been back in Bethlehem, sharing a shack with Mother and Adah with my tail between my legs.†   (source)
  • He wondered if there were still deserted islands in the world, like the one on which Robinson Crusoe had been shipwrecked.†   (source)
  • Robinson Crusoe, having made it back to England after years of isolation, shortly thereafter set sail for that very same island from which he had so fervently prayed for deliverance.†   (source)
  • So Thackeray Porringer had died in a fury, clutching his copy of Robinson Crusoe which was, apart from a silver sixpence with the edges clipped and the clothes he had formerly been standing up in, all that he owned, and, at his mother's request, he was buried with his book.†   (source)
  • I closed the book and longed for Robinson Crusoe, still stranded in the study where Colonel Hawkins was asleep.†   (source)
  • We had finished Robinson Crusoe long ago, and Kevin had chosen a couple of other familiar books from the library.†   (source)
  • Like Robinson Crusoe, he had thought it natural and right that the wild man should be the white man's slave.†   (source)
  • ROBINSON CRUSOE HAD COME TO AN END.†   (source)
  • Matt could understand now just how he must have delighted them with his acting out of Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • Delighted, Matt tried to picture the Indians sitting around the campfire at night listening to Attean tell the story of Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • After Attean had gone, Matt kept thinking about Robinson Crusoe and all the useful things he had managed to salvage from that ship.†   (source)
  • And Matt, a puny sort of Robinson Crusoe, tagged along behind, grateful for the smallest sign that he could do anything right.†   (source)
  • Taking a deep breath, as though he were struggling in the water himself, he chose the page where Robinson Crusoe was dashed from the lifeboat and swallowed up in the sea.†   (source)
  • After all, there must have been a thing or two about that desert island that a native who had lived there all his life could have taught Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • He opened Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • Robinson Crusoe?†   (source)
  • He remembered how Robinson Crusoe was very careful to keep track of time even though he never had any appointments.†   (source)
  • But those other things—you're right, ma'am,—there ain't much—Robinson Crusoe and the Bible; and Handel's Largo, we all know that; and Whistler's Mother—those are just about as far as we go.†   (source)
  • "Robinson Crusoe had no more," said Milly to herself, and then stood aghast at her levity.†   (source)
  • And then the guard bringing two books—Robinson Crusoe and the Arabian Nights.†   (source)
  • Oh, hunting pictures in Germany, and Robinson Crusoe and funny pictures about cannibals.†   (source)
  • You see it was Robinson Crusoe asking all the accumulated questions of fifty-six years!†   (source)
  • I was as rejoiced as Robinson Crusoe could have been at finding such a treasure.†   (source)
  • I got 'Robinson Crusoe' and tried to read, but his life on the island seemed dull compared with ours.†   (source)
  • Robinson Crusoe,†   (source)
  • The Young Man's Best Companion, The Farrier's Sure Guide, The Veterinary Surgeon, Paradise Lost, The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Ash's Dictionary, and Walkingame's Arithmetic, constituted his library; and though a limited series, it was one from which he had acquired more sound information by diligent perusal than many a man of opportunities has done from a furlong of laden shelves.†   (source)
  • As to the little book to which the man on the floor had referred, we acquired a knowledge of it afterwards, and Mr. Jarndyce said he doubted if Robinson Crusoe could have read it, though he had had no other on his desolate island.†   (source)
  • She drew herself up, and stood behind a tree, like Robinson Crusoe in his ambuscade against the savages; so near to them that at a spring, and that no great one, she could have touched them both.†   (source)
  • 'We must have a long stick, like Robinson Crusoe, and cut a notch in it every day, and count them up every now and then, to see how the weeks and months and years go by.'†   (source)
  • That wealth had been, in his desert home, like Robinson Crusoe's money; exchangeable with no one, lying idle in the dark to rust, until he poured it out for her.†   (source)
  • I saw that I was just another Robinson Crusoe cast away on an uninhabited island, with no society but some more or less tame animals, and if I wanted to make life bearable I must do as he did—invent, contrive, create, reorganize things; set brain and hand to work, and keep them busy.†   (source)
  • From that blessed little room, Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle, Humphrey Clinker, Tom Jones, the Vicar of Wakefield, Don Quixote, Gil Blas, and Robinson Crusoe, came out, a glorious host, to keep me company.†   (source)
  • They constructed sentences, by way of teaching him the language in its purity, such as were addressed by the savages to Captain Cook, or by Friday to Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • 'Certainly if we could make any use of it; otherwise, in our situation, it is about as valuable as the lump of gold found by good old Robinson Crusoe.'†   (source)
  • My aunt sitting on a quantity of luggage, with her two birds before her, and her cat on her knee, like a female Robinson Crusoe, drinking tea.†   (source)
  • More solitary than Robinson Crusoe, who had nobody to look at him and see that he was solitary, I went into the booking-office, and, by invitation of the clerk on duty, passed behind the counter, and sat down on the scale at which they weighed the luggage.†   (source)
  • We were soon ready to return to the boat, but Ernest had a fancy for remaining alone on the island till we came back, and asked my permission to do so, that he might experience, for an hour or two, the sensations of Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • We had an adjourned cause in the Consistory that day — about excommunicating a baker who had been objecting in a vestry to a paving-rate — and as the evidence was just twice the length of Robinson Crusoe, according to a calculation I made, it was rather late in the day before we finished.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 24 MY FIRST DISSIPATION It was a wonderfully fine thing to have that lofty castle to myself, and to feel, when I shut my outer door, like Robinson Crusoe, when he had got into his fortification, and pulled his ladder up after him.†   (source)
  • Its called Robinson Crusoe about a man who gets merooned on a dessert iland.†   (source)
  • Finished Robinson Crusoe.†   (source)
  • Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life.†   (source)
  • Robinson Crusoe had to live on them.†   (source)
  • …oysters (shells included), heals several sufferers from king's evil, contracts his face so as to resemble many historical personages, Lord Beaconsfield, Lord Byron, Wat Tyler, Moses of Egypt, Moses Maimonides, Moses Mendelssohn, Henry Irving, Rip van Winkle, Kossuth, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Baron Leopold Rothschild, Robinson Crusoe, Sherlock Holmes, Pasteur, turns each foot simultaneously in different directions, bids the tide turn back, eclipses the sun by extending his little finger.†   (source)
  • O, poor Robinson Crusoe!†   (source)
  • I have some curious books in both languages; such as Erasmi Colloquia, Ovid de Tristibus, Gradus ad Parnassum; and in English I have several of the best books, though some of them are a little torn; but I have a great part of Stowe's Chronicle; the sixth volume of Pope's Homer; the third volume of the Spectator; the second volume of Echard's Roman History; the Craftsman; Robinson Crusoe; Thomas a Kempis; and two volumes of Tom Brown's Works."†   (source)
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  • THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE.   (source)
    Robinson Crusoe = The character & book name is tracked when it is in other books, but not when it is in the book, Robinson Crusoe.
  • _Robin, Robin, Robinson Crusoe, poor Robin!   (source)
  • [Illustration: ROBINSON CRUSOE rescuing FRIDAY from his pursuers.   (source)
  • THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE.   (source)
  • Poor Robinson Crusoe, where are you?   (source)
  • Where are you, Robinson Crusoe?   (source)
  • [Illustration: Robinson Crusoe struck with confusion and horror, at seeing the print of a man's foot upon the sand _Dr.   (source)
  • I unhappy Robinson Crusoe, having suffered shipwreck, was driven on this desolate island, which I named the Desolate Island of Despair, my companions being swallowed up in the tempestous ocean.   (source)
  • Besides these, I continually kept two or three household kids about me, which I learned to feed out of my hand, and two more parrots which could talk indifferently, and call Robinson Crusoe, but not so excellently as the first, as not taking that pains with them.   (source)
  • But, as the voice repeated _Robinson Crusoe_ several times, being terribly affrighted, I started up in utmost confusion; and, no sooner were my eyes fully open, but I beheld my pretty Poll sitting on the top of the hedge, and soon knew that it was he that called me; for just in such bewailing language I used to talk and teach him; which he so exactly learned that he would sit upon my finger and lay his bill close to my face, and cry, _Poor Robinson Crusoe, where are you? where have you…   (source)
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  • But now being assured it could be no other than my honest Poll, my wonder ceased, and reaching out my hand, and calling familiarly Poll, the creature came to me, and perched upon my thumb as he was wont, constantly prating to me with _Poor Robinson Crusoe, and how did I come here, and where had I been?   (source)
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