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robinson crusoe
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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
  • 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 = title and name of main character in a novel about a sailor shipwrecked on a remote tropical island for 28 years
  • 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
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • Every house has only a single square room and a thatched roof, under which might dwell the likes of Robinson Crusoe.†  (source)
  • Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being.†  (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)
  • It had been months since I dug into the story of Robinson Crusoe.†  (source)
  • Like Robinson Crusoe's discovery of footprints on the sand.†  (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)
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