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There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent. | were | {
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There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent. | making | {
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There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent. | held | {
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There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy. | was | {
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There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy. | gives | {
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There was also a boomerang, elaborately carved. | was | {
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Everything was burnished with sweat and grease so that all of the objects seemed to have been carved from the same material and to be ageless. | seemed | {
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The two children, both boys, wandered around the Australian and me for a few moments and then returned to their work. | wandered | {
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The two children, both boys, wandered around the Australian and me for a few moments and then returned to their work. | returned | {
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They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground. | squatted | {
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They squatted on their heels with their heads bent far forward, their eyes only a few inches from the ground. | bent | {
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They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead. | located | {
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They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead. | came out | {
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They had located the runway of a colony of ants and as the ants came out of the ground, the boys picked them up, one at a time, and pinched them dead. | pinched | {
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The tiny bodies, dropped onto a dry leaf, made a pile as big as a small apple. | dropped | {
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The tiny bodies, dropped onto a dry leaf, made a pile as big as a small apple. | made | {
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The odor here was more powerful than that which surrounded the town aborigines. | was | {
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The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant. | was | {
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It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed. | was | {
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It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed. | multiplied | {
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It was also subtly familiar, for it was the odor of the human body, but multiplied innumerable times because of the fact that the aborigines never bathed. | bathed | {
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One 's impulse is to say that the smell was a stink and unpleasant. | is | {
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One 's impulse is to say that the smell was a stink and unpleasant. | say | {
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One 's impulse is to say that the smell was a stink and unpleasant. | was | {
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But that is a cliche and a dishonest one. | is | {
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The smell is sexual, but so powerfully so that a civilized nose must deny it. | is | {
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The smell is sexual, but so powerfully so that a civilized nose must deny it. | deny | {
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Their skin was covered with a thin coating of sweat and dirt which had almost the consistency of a second skin. | covered | {
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They roll at night in ashes to keep warm and their second skin has a light dusty cast to it. | roll | {
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They roll at night in ashes to keep warm and their second skin has a light dusty cast to it. | keep | {
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They roll at night in ashes to keep warm and their second skin has a light dusty cast to it. | has | {
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In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; as if the coating of sweat, dirt, and ashes were a cosmetic. | is | {
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In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; as if the coating of sweat, dirt, and ashes were a cosmetic. | worn off | {
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In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; as if the coating of sweat, dirt, and ashes were a cosmetic. | realized | {
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In spots such as the elbows and knees the second skin is worn off and I realized the aborigines were much darker than they appeared ; as if the coating of sweat, dirt, and ashes were a cosmetic. | were | {
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The boys had beautiful dark eyes and unlike their father they brushed constantly at the flies and blinked their eyes. | had | {
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The boys had beautiful dark eyes and unlike their father they brushed constantly at the flies and blinked their eyes. | brushed | {
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The boys had beautiful dark eyes and unlike their father they brushed constantly at the flies and blinked their eyes. | blinked | {
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`` That smell is something, eh, mate ''? the Australian asked. | is | {
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`` That smell is something, eh, mate ''? the Australian asked. | asked | {
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`` They swear that every person smells different and every family smells different from every other. | swear | {
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`` They swear that every person smells different and every family smells different from every other. | smells | {
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At the corroborees, when they get to dancing and sweating, you 'll see them rubbing up against a man who 's supposed to have a specially good smell. | dancing | {
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At the corroborees, when they get to dancing and sweating, you 'll see them rubbing up against a man who 's supposed to have a specially good smell. | have | {
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Idje, here '', and he nodded at the man, `` is said to have great odor. | nodded | {
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Idje, here '', and he nodded at the man, `` is said to have great odor. | said | {
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Idje, here '', and he nodded at the man, `` is said to have great odor. | have | {
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The stink is all the same to me, but I really think they can make one another out blindfolded ''. | is | {
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The stink is all the same to me, but I really think they can make one another out blindfolded ''. | think | {
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The stink is all the same to me, but I really think they can make one another out blindfolded ''. | make | {
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`` Here, Idje, you fella like tabac ''? he said sharply. | like | {
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`` Here, Idje, you fella like tabac ''? he said sharply. | said | {
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Idje still stared over our shoulders at the horizon. | stared | {
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The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest. | stopped | {
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The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest. | trying | {
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The Australian stopped trying to talk a pidgin I could understand, and spoke strange words from deep in his chest. | talk | {
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The Momoyama family had come from Miyagi Prefecture, in the northeast of the main Japanese island of Honshu, where there are still traces of the mysterious Ainu strain. | come | {
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The Momoyama family had come from Miyagi Prefecture, in the northeast of the main Japanese island of Honshu, where there are still traces of the mysterious Ainu strain. | are | {
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The Ainus were a primitive people, already living on the island before the principal ancestors of the Japanese came from Southern Asia. | living | {
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Apparently they were of Caucasian blood. | were | {
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They had white skins and blue eyes ; all their men were bearded, and many of their women were beautiful. | had | {
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A pitiful few of them are left now, to subsist mainly on the tourist trade and to sing their ancient tribal chants, which have the same haunting sadness as the laments of the American Indians. | are | {
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A pitiful few of them are left now, to subsist mainly on the tourist trade and to sing their ancient tribal chants, which have the same haunting sadness as the laments of the American Indians. | sing | {
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A pitiful few of them are left now, to subsist mainly on the tourist trade and to sing their ancient tribal chants, which have the same haunting sadness as the laments of the American Indians. | have | {
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Most of them have been assimilated, but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures is much more hairy than the average Japanese, and occasionally a girl will be strikingly lovely, her coloring warmed and improved by a little of the tawny honey-in-the-sun tint of the invaders from the South. | assimilated | {
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Most of them have been assimilated, but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures is much more hairy than the average Japanese, and occasionally a girl will be strikingly lovely, her coloring warmed and improved by a little of the tawny honey-in-the-sun tint of the invaders from the South. | is | {
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Most of them have been assimilated, but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures is much more hairy than the average Japanese, and occasionally a girl will be strikingly lovely, her coloring warmed and improved by a little of the tawny honey-in-the-sun tint of the invaders from the South. | be | {
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Most of them have been assimilated, but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures is much more hairy than the average Japanese, and occasionally a girl will be strikingly lovely, her coloring warmed and improved by a little of the tawny honey-in-the-sun tint of the invaders from the South. | warmed | {
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Most of them have been assimilated, but sometimes a man in Miyagi or Akita prefectures is much more hairy than the average Japanese, and occasionally a girl will be strikingly lovely, her coloring warmed and improved by a little of the tawny honey-in-the-sun tint of the invaders from the South. | improved | {
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Tommy Momoyama was one of these fortunate occasions. | was | {
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She was taller than most Japanese girls, and had the exquisitely willowy form of the Japanese girl who is lucky enough to be tall. | was | {
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She was taller than most Japanese girls, and had the exquisitely willowy form of the Japanese girl who is lucky enough to be tall. | had | {
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She was taller than most Japanese girls, and had the exquisitely willowy form of the Japanese girl who is lucky enough to be tall. | is | {
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She was taller than most Japanese girls, and had the exquisitely willowy form of the Japanese girl who is lucky enough to be tall. | be | {
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Her nose was higher of bridge, her complexion so pale as to be quite susceptible to sunburn, and the fish and vegetable diet of her forebears had given her teeth that were white and regular and strong. | was | {
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Her nose was higher of bridge, her complexion so pale as to be quite susceptible to sunburn, and the fish and vegetable diet of her forebears had given her teeth that were white and regular and strong. | given | {
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Her nose was higher of bridge, her complexion so pale as to be quite susceptible to sunburn, and the fish and vegetable diet of her forebears had given her teeth that were white and regular and strong. | were | {
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Her mouth, soft and full, was something for any man to dream about. | was | {
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Her mouth, soft and full, was something for any man to dream about. | dream | {
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She had black eyes, long and intriguingly tilted, and the way she walked was melody. | had | {
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