Test XIII

1. She's got __ three things that matter in a wife: __ breeding, __ brains, and __ beauty. (D. du Maurier)

2. Ralph looked at his life – blitzed, defeated and occupied – and was dimly glad his feelings never went deep enough for __ real despair. (K. Saunders)

3. Rosemary was __ romantic. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

4. “Can you tell us where __ house called Roselands is? It belongs to __ doctor Baker, who’s retired and come to live there lately.” (D. du Maurier)

5. Reaching the sea wall she fell into __ communicative mood and no one to communicate with. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

6. It’s possible that I was __ wrong person for Nicole. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

7. All that remained of the charm and personality of __ Dick Humbird he had known. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

8. Every Sunday after that, Paul Martin took his wife and the twins to __ Sunnyvale club for lunch. (S. Sheldon)

9. It was __ late morning when he woke and found __ telephone beside his bed in __ hotel tolling frantically. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

10. Within two years Phys Williams was made __ manager of the shop where he worked. (S. Sheldon)

11. __ depression did not at first hit __ Riviera badly. I heard of two or three people who had lost a good deal, many villas remained closed for __ winter and several were put up for sale. The hotels were far from full and __ Casino at Monte Carlo complained that __ season was poor. (W.S. Maugham)

12. The stag line is __ most homogeneous mass of men. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

13. He, who opens __ school door, closes __ prison. (V. Hugo)

14. He whittled a popular tune of the moment with __ easy confidence. (D. du Maurier)

15. Then I turned and went down to__ breakfast. (D. du Maurier)

16. There at the head of the white platoon marched Allenby, __ football captain, slim and defiant, as if aware that this year the hopes of the college rested on him. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

17. “How would it be, I wonder, if you were to spend __ summer traveling with me?” (S. Fry)

18. She was nine and very fair and exquisitely made like Nicole, and in __ past Dick had worried about that. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

19. He sat down on __ bed, breathing and staring; thinking first the old selfish child’s thought that comes with the death of a parent. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

20. He had left when __ French had pulled out and President Diem had come to power. (J.H. Chase)

Test XIV

1. Norma Talmadge must be __ woman whom it would be a great privilege to know. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

2. God, the place was __ wilderness; lovely, yes, wild and lonely with __ beauty of its own, yes, but crying out for __ skill and __ care and __ money that he would never give to it, that I would not have though of giving to it — but for Rebecca. (D. du Maurier)

3. On the last night of his first term, Mr. Margotson, __ senior master, sent __ word to study hall that Amory was to come to his room at nine. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

4. Adrian sipped at __ wine. (S. Fry)

5. It took __ British a month to walk to it. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

6. Cartwright would be sixteen going on seventeen now of course, but __ Cartwright he would always know was thirteen going on fourteen. (S. Fry)

7. At __ Paddington station, she had to shake him awake. (K. Saunders)

8. Certainly she was __ most attractive woman Rosemary had ever met. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

9. They started back with __ hot sorrow streaming down upon them. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

10. We have __ late lunch of several chocolate bars and a shared can of Lilt. (M. Gayle)

11. When it was __ dusk the lamps would all be lit. (D. du Maurier)

12. __ clothes don’t make __ man, but clothes have got many __ man __ good job. (H.H. Vreeland)

13. She awakened in __ hospital. (S. Sheldon)

14. He was soon in charge of the French operation, and __ member of the board of directors. (S. Sheldon)

15. It always seems to be __ summer when I look back. (G. Orwell)

16. It was an oddly clear night when she went out, with slanting particles of thin sleet making white of __ blue-black sky. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

17. Dick got out of__ bed and into a robe. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

18. Pazzi was __ Pazzi and above all things ambitious, and he had a young and lovely wife with an ever-open beak. (Th. Harris)

19. “How did you know that?” Pazzi would consider a reference to recent newspaper coverage rude in __ extreme. (Th. Harris)

20. __ great art is as irrational as __ great music. It is mad with its own loveliness. (G.J. Nathan)