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There were, however, many adventures which she knew to be true because she was in them herself, and there were still more that were at least partly true, for the other boys were in them and said they were wholly true.

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This you would do unless you are one of the blessed few in whom the pure spirit of adventure is not dead.

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You mean that the adventures of innocence have so often been the material of fiction?

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With this permission Sancho settled himself as comfortably as he could on his beast, and taking out of the alforjas what he had stowed away in them, he jogged along behind his master munching deliberately, and from time to time taking a pull at the bota with a relish that the thirstiest tapster in Malaga might have envied; and while he went on in this way, gulping down draught after draught, he never gave a thought to any of the promises his master had made him, nor did he rate it as hardship but rather as recreation going in quest of adventures, however dangerous they might be.

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So here she is again, as sweet and gentle and innocent as ever, I hope, and the heroine of another strange adventure.

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Defoe got the idea of his story from the adventures of a Scots sailor named Alexander Selkirk.

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And when they heard of his adventures they marveled that he would jeopard his person so alone.

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And then when you read a little further you will discover that the Doctor is not merely a peg on whom to hang exciting and various adventures but that he is himself a man of original and lively character.

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They wrote many letters asking if the Historian did not know of some adventures to write about that had happened before the Land of Oz was shut out from all the rest of the world.

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Tarzan was a bit puzzled, too, that he felt no desire to rush frantically to some place of safety, as had been the sensation most conspicuous in the other of his new and remarkable adventures.

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The adventure began with David's coming to me at the unwonted hour of six P.

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The temptation was strong enough and sudden enough to make him waver, but all the disgust came back to him that was his when he lay in the grass fighting gnats and cursing adventure, and he answered, -

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