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The boy [Danny] looked like a baby: purple faced, wet hair, that drowned look of a newborn, cast up on to its mother's suddenly creased and spongy belly.

— Pat Barker Border Crossing (2001)

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You wring a chicken's neck, you don't expect to find it running round the yard next morning, do you?

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A second later, the water enclosed him in a coffin of ice.

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