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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    Her soul cried out in the words of Faust, "Stay, thou art fair!"†  (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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    "Mr. and Mrs. Faust," Inspector Williams said, "I'm afraid we have two uncooperative children."†  (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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    I understood why this stuff is so deadly, so insufferably false, even in Faust.†  (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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    Ever read Faust?†  (source)
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    Mephistopheles declared to Faust that he desired evil, but did only good.†  (source)
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    As he strode over a gutter, he apostrophized a bearded portress who was worthy to meet Faust on the Brocken, and who had a broom in her hand.†  (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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