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Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary
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Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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Has he deigned to add aught of civility to his ordinary style?
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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as long as she let him alone she might trample on us like slaves, for aught he cared!
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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"[...] So I went along to see could aught be done for him.”
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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‘All well at the Heights?’ I inquired of the woman.
‘Eea, f’r owt ee knaw!’ she answered,
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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“He who sins aught Sins more than he ought;
But he who sins nought Has much to be taught.
Beat or be beaten, Eat or be eaten,
Be killed or kill; Choose which you will.”
Samuel Butler. Erewhon
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So much as from occasion you may glean, Whether aught, to us unknown, afflicts him thus,That, open'd, lies within our remedy.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet
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"So it is God's will, it seems. There is no escaping your fate. Here to-day we are eating caviare and to-morrow, for aught we know, it will be prison, beggary, or maybe death. Anything may happen. Take Pyotr Semyonitch, for instance. . . ."
Anton Chekhov. In Trouble.
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