Test XIX

1. We came round the sweep of the drive and Manderley was before us, serene and peaceful in the hollow of the lawns, surprising me as it always did, with __ perfect symmetry and __ grace and __ great simplicity. (D. du Maurier)

2. I’ve wasted eight years teaching __ rich the ABC’s of human decency, but I’m not done. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

3. “What am I supposed to do? I suffer from the problem of never thinking that I’ve met __ right person. So I take people out.” (C. Bushnell)

4. __ Mrs. Bispam, an overcordial little lady whom I met at __ tea the other day, told me that her son, he is at Yale, wrote her that all the boys there wore their summer underwear all during __ winter. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

5. __ Mont Blanc should have been an easy climb this time of the year, __ early September. Sam had tried __ climb before, but storms had kept him from reaching __ peak. (S. Sheldon)

6. She was __ most eagerly awaited child in the world. (S. Sheldon)

7. “You want __ Martini?” said Suraya. (H. Fielding)

8. Dudley left __ town. (C. Bushnell)

9. They had __ tranquil supper, with Dick drinking much beer and being cheerful with the children in the dusky room. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

10. He was saddled with monthly payments to his ex-wife who had divorced him a few months before he had sailed to __ Far East. (J.H. Chase)

11. It was __ dawn when Elizabeth heard Rhys return. (S. Sheldon)

12. I had __ uneasy suspicion from the way she took me in from__ top to__ toe that she had __ pretty shrewd idea what I was after. (W.S. Maugham)

13. What I shall do in __ future is hanging in the balance. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

14. __ bruised sky bore down. (S. Fry)

15. The girl had stolen to __ bed and tumbled upon it. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

16. This is the end of one thing: for better or worse you will never again be quite __ Amory Blaine that I knew. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

17. I bet you five hundred pounds that by next week you’re __ editor of Femme. (M. Gayle)

18. Articulate among them would be __ great Jung, bland, supervigorous, on his rounds between the forests of anthropology and the neuroses of schoolboys. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

19. I said good-night and walked out into __ warm, silent darkness. (J.H. Chase)

20. He had found __ peace here that he would preserve – he has killed hardly anybody, except his predecessor, during his residence in Florence. (Th. Harris)

Test XX

1. “Hello, Mitzi? It’s Dinah at the front desk. Have a young gentleman here who says he wants to see __ Sir David Pearce. I told him we … oh… I’ll ask him.” (S. Fry)

2. I take __ great pride in my firstborn, Mrs Tufton. (K. Saunders)

3. I thought __ French were drinkers. (H.E. Bates)

4. __ past is a curious thing. (G. Orwell)

5. Amory was deriving __ highly specialized education from his mother. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

6. One was Shooter, __ fishmonger, and the other was old Wetherall, __ joiner and undertaker. (G. Orwell)

7. You’re on the New Democracy, considered __ most brilliant weekly in the country, read by men who do things and all that. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

8. Your mom was __ Roffe, right? (S. Sheldon)

9. He had paused awkwardly, searching for __ right phrase. (S. Sheldon)

10. __ beauty of Manderley that you see today, __ Manderley that people talk about and photograph and paint, it's all due to her, to Rebecca. (D. du Maurier)

11. It was still dark outside, and the breeze that gently ballooned __ curtains over __ sill had __ morning freshness. (K. Saunders)

12. __ lunch was ready and the three sat down and ate through eight courses of immaculately prepared food. (J.H. Chase)

13. It’s __ lovely afternoon, dear. (K. Saunders)

14. Then he gave way again and knelt beside __ bed, his head half-buried in the pillow. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

15. __ Doctor Baker came back into the room with a large book and a file-case in his hands. (D. du Maurier)

16. They would put on a face-saving show for the benefit of __ American Embassy, but it wouldn’t last long. (J.H. Chase)

17. His face, wan in the light that the white spray caught and tossed back to __ brilliant sky, had none of the lines of annoyance she had expected. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

18. He and Amory … accepted in their own minds a relation of __ father and __ son within a half-hour’s conversation. (F. Sc. Fitzgerald)

19. Olivia realized exactly how extraordinary the events of __ last few days had been. (H. Fielding)

20. But now and then she couldn’t help wondering what __ virginal Iris would make of those too large, too handsome eyes. (H.E. Bates)