Sample Sentences for
Faust
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    The first one, Faust the Dog, was written by a man named Mattheus Ottleberg.†  (source)
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    Or Mephistopheles—in Goethe's Faust 'Was soil uns denn das ew'ge Schaffen!†  (source)
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    Thus, casually, begins Lonesome Dove, by far my most popular novel, and one that allows me to join the small company of "respectable" writers whose fiction deals with the American West: Cormac McCarthy, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Tom Lee and a handful of others, below whom comes the vast desert of the pulpers, the sons and daughters of Max Brand (Frederick Faust), Louis L'Amour and many hundreds of others.†  (source)
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    "Mr. and Mrs. Faust," Inspector Williams said, "I'm afraid we have two uncooperative children."†  (source)
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    The chief difference between Hansberry's version of the Faustian bargain and others is that Walter Lee ultimately resists the satanic temptation.†  (source)
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    I understood why this stuff is so deadly, so insufferably false, even in Faust.†  (source)
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    I want my students notonly to agree with me that, indeed, Mr. Lindner is an instance of the demonic tempter offering Walter Lee Younger a Faustian bargain; I want them to be able to reach that conclusion without me.†  (source)
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    A number of years ago when I would go from my farm up to Lubeck—I was quite young at the time—I saw a silent film version of Faust in which the woman who played Gretchen was unbelievably beautiful and made a deep impression on me.†  (source)
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    ' " They played potsy, humming "The Soldiers' Chorus" from Faust which they called "Glory.†  (source)
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    Ever read Faust?†  (source)
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    In all the versions of the Faust legend, which is the dominant form of this type of story, the hero is offered something he desperately wants—power or knowledge or a fastball that will beat the Yankees—and all he has to give up is his soul.†  (source)
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    This is the guiding power that runs through the work of Dante in the female figures of Beatrice and the Virgin, and appears in Goethe's Faust successively as Gretchen, Helen of Troy, and the Virgin.†  (source)
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    He believes, like Faust, that two souls are far too many for a single breast and must tear the breast asunder.†  (source)
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