No one in the adjacent apartments was awakened by theirquarreling sounds.
The spring floods were a great calamity to the farmerswhose crops and houses were ruined.
The floods and storms, which have no precedent in therecorded history, devastated the country.
The exultant players were dancing on the ground overtheir team’s victory.
The wealth of our country seems inexhaustible to manypeople abroad.
We saw a maudlin movie about an orphan who lost hisparents in the war.
The enemies plundered all the valuable things theycould find in the village.
A scrupulous man never fails to give back the borrowedmoney to its owner.
From sundry hints, I guessed I was to be given abicycle for my birthday present.
The children made zealous efforts to clean up thehouse for the Christmas party.
We wonder if human beings are primarily altruistic orselfish.
The public clamor for lower taxes continued year afteryear.
The old manuscripts had been disintegrated into a pileof fragments and dust.
Although Napoleon was Corsican, he is considered bymost modern Frenchmen to have been French as their own forebears.
The boy who found it on the street returned the moneyintact.
We did not molest the big dog because we were afraidof him.
The mourner’s profuse tears at the burial wereheartbreaking.
He was slack in fulfilling his promises andresponsibilities.
Tart apples taste sharp and are pleasantly acid intheir taste.
This plan looks all right in principle, but inpractice it wouldn’t be viable.
The carpenters made the roof aslant to allow water torun down.
They conceded that victory was no longer attainableand agreed to a negotiated surrender.
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