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robinson crusoe
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  • 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)
    Robinson Crusoe = story of a sailor shipwrecked on a remote tropical island for 28 years
  • I have a book here that you’ll like. ... Robinson Crusoe!  (source)
    Robinson Crusoe = Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel of a shipwrecked sailor who survives on a small tropical island
  • He opened Robinson Crusoe at the first page and began to read.  (source)
    Robinson Crusoe = story of a sailor shipwrecked on a remote tropical island for 28 years
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  • "Besides," I held up Robinson Crusoe, "look at the pleasure you'll miss."  (source)
    Robinson Crusoe = story of a sailor shipwrecked on a remote tropical island for 28 years
  • 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)
    Robinson Crusoe = title and name of main character in a novel about a sailor shipwrecked on a remote tropical island for 28 years
  • These poor people, washed ashore like Robinson Crusoe, making do without croissants.†  (source)
  • Every house has only a single square room and a thatched roof, under which might dwell the likes of Robinson Crusoe.†  (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)
  • Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being.†  (source)
  • I had Billy Budd, Martin Eden, Treasure Island, Heart of Darkness, The Odyssey, Robinson Crusoe, and the Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy.†  (source)
  • It had been months since I dug into the story of Robinson Crusoe.†  (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)
  • Like Robinson Crusoe's discovery of footprints on the sand.†  (source)
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  • Illustration: ROBINSON CRUSOE rescuing FRIDAY from his pursuers.  (source)
    ROBINSON CRUSOE = untracked name in this novel
  • Robin, Robin, Robinson Crusoe, poor Robin!  (source)
  • ROBINSON CRUSOE.  (source)
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  • 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 tempestuous ocean.  (source)
    Robinson Crusoe = untracked name in this novel
  • Where are you, Robinson Crusoe?  (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;  (source)
  • ...he would sit upon my finger and lay his bill close to my face, and cry, Poor Robinson Crusoe, where are you?  (source)
  • 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)
  • Illustration: Robinson Crusoe struck with confusion and horror, at seeing the print of a man's foot upon the sand  (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)
  • ROBINSON CRUSOE.  (source)
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