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- He was going fast too, silent, with the delicate swiftness of an apparition, the implacable undeviation of Juggernaut or Fate.Chapter 19 (79% in)
- The train could be stopped with a red flag, but by ordinary it appeared out of the devastated hills with apparitionlike suddenness and wailing like a banshee, athwart and past that little less-than-village like a forgotten bead from a broken string.Chapter 1 (8% in)
- They see one another at the same moment: the two faces, the mild, nondescript, bloody one and the lean, harried, desperate one contorted now in a soundless shouting above the noise of the train, passing one another as though on opposite orbits and with an effect as of phantoms or apparitions.Chapter 18 (96% in)
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