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Book: Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale of Adventure
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  1. Michael Chabon _ Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale

    adventures befall the unadventuresome as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold.
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    Life blew in gusts from the hole in the side of the elephant with a rank smell and a comic flatulence.
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    breath, pressed an ear against his chest and took the poor fellow's pulse. While he worked, he asked about the
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    the greater involution and deeper patina of her left tooth in comparison to the right, the skeptical cast
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    You mendacious sons of bitches," the mahout said
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    Maybe I'm tired," he said. "Maybe I'm tired of picking up life in bits and fistfuls and little drawstring bags. When you get to be as old as I am, there's an appeal in the idea of seeing some business through from start to finish.
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    wild discipline by a dozen red-shirted men. The remaining half of the black-armored Arsiyah dismounted to confront the barred gate. They could not know, as Zelikman saw plainly from the top of the rise, that the Rus had abandoned, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say they
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    bells. "I accept your kind invitation," Zelikman said. "My services as a physician ought just to offset my fare." The elephant gave a low moan, startling them, and a moment later they heard a faint trill, carried on the wind from off the river, and then another. "Trumpets," the nephew said.
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    saddlebags and called for water to be heated. He knelt and removed his outer tunic and rolled the white sleeves of the inner one. He rubbed astringent oil into his hands and along his forearms to the elbow, to the amusement of the nephew, who drew a wrongheaded moral from the notion of a physician who medicated himself and not his patient. The stranger
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  10. Michael Chabon _ Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale

    saddlebags and called for water to be heated. He knelt and removed his outer tunic and rolled the white sleeves of the inner one. He rubbed astringent oil into his hands and along his forearms to the elbow, to the amusement of the nephew, who drew a wrongheaded moral from the notion of a physician who medicated himself and not his patient. The stranger leaned in to sniff at the Italian's breath, pressed an ear against his chest and took the poor fellow's pulse. While he worked, he asked about the"
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  11. Michael Chabon _ Gentlemen of the Road: A Tale

    I don't save lives," Zelikman said. "I just prolong their futility.
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