They seek to suppress and destroy religions, and strictly prevent all foreign sourest of news from coming in. |
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Even if Nichols cheats a bit about a few details, he makes his main characters tragicomically true to life, racily human enough to wrest sympathy from the sourest souls. |
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When we got home, we found the plums were either over-ripe or rotten, the blackberries were the sourest we'd ever tasted and the beans were stringier than a rope factory. |
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