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His strange, heavy, almost...
waxen face
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The weight of his desire was...
a force I might not withstand
2 of 74
I sensed in myself a potentiality...
for corruption that took my breath away
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His castle that lay on the...
very bosom of the sea
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Enough! No; ____!
Enough! No; more!
5 of 74
Have the nasty pictures...
scared baby?
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I clung to him as though only the one who had...
inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it
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I was not afraid of him, but...
myself
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The secret of Pandora's box; but...
he had given me the box
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The atrocious loneliness of...
that monster!
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The puppet master saw...
his dolls break free of their strings
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You never saw such a wild...
thing as my mother
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the savage, indifferent sea, like...
the witnesses of a furious justice
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The road is white and unmarked as a spilled...
bolt of bridal satin
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His Beauty, his girl-child, his ___
His Beauty, his girl-child, his pet
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A constant human presence would...
remind him too bitterly of his otherness
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Miss Lamb, spotless, _______
Miss Lamb, spotless, sacrificial
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Yet she stayed, and smiled, because...
her father wanted her to do so
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All the natural laws of the world were...
held in suspension, here
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Yet still his strangeness...
made her shiver
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Women whom circumstances force...
mutely to witness folly
21 of 74
Always the...
pretty one
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He would far rather drop...
down on all fours
23 of 74
My father said he loved me yet...
he staked his daughter on a hand of cards
24 of 74
I have lost my pearl, my pearl...
beyond price
25 of 74
I ***** my finger and so he gets his rose...
all smeared with blood
26 of 74
I let out a raucous guffar; no...
young lady laughs like that
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I was a young girl, a virgin, and therefore...
men denied me rationality
28 of 74
The tiger will never lie down with...
the lamb
29 of 74
The lamb must learn...
to run with the tigers
30 of 74
He will ______ you up
He will gobble you up
31 of 74
The key to a peaceable kingdom in which...
his appetite need not be my extinction
32 of 74
He was far more frightened of...
me than I was of him
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Women are more keenly tuned...
to the sweet music of their bodies
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I must and will...
have her forever
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"I'm burning with the fever of love!" "Then we're...
spared the expense of fires"
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Down on the carpet since...
the bed is occupe
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Her turn at...
the grind
38 of 74
The old buffoon briskly bundled...
in his coffin and buried
39 of 74
So may all your wives, if you need them, be...
rich and pretty
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All your husbands, if you want them, be...
young and virile
41 of 74
The woods...
swallow you up
42 of 74
Erl-King will do you...
grievous harm
43 of 74
Then I could lodge inside your body and...
you would bear me
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His touch both...
consoles and devastates me
45 of 74
His embracements were...
his enticements
46 of 74
With hands as gentle as rain, I shall...
strangle him with them
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Mid-winter- invincible, ________
Mid-winter- invincible, immaculate
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White skin, red mouth, black hair and...
stark naked
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She was the child of his desire and...
the Countess hated her
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Pricks her finger on the thorn...
bleeds; screams; falls
51 of 74
thrust his virile member...
into the dead girl
52 of 74
Watched him _______
Watched him narrowly
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Then the girl began...
to melt
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Cracked mirror suspended from a wall does not...
reflect a presence
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Her beauty is an...
abnormality, a deformity
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A white lace neglige...
stained a little with blood
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Huge, spiked wall that...
incarcerates her
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Delicious crunch of...
the fragile bones
59 of 74
But now she is a woman, she must...
have men
60 of 74
A certain deslate stillness of her eyes...
indicates she is inconsolable
61 of 74
She shakes, she _______
She shakes, she trembles
62 of 74
He himself is immune to shadow, due...
to his virginity
63 of 74
He will learn to shudder in the trenches. But...
this girl cannot make him shudder
64 of 74
It is dinner-time. It is...
bed time
65 of 74
I shall cure her...
of all these nightmares
66 of 74
Take your father's hunting knife; you...
know how to use it
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Scabby coat of...
sheepskin
68 of 74
Any footsteps that might have...
been upon it were obscured
69 of 74
Now the child lived in her...
grandmother's house; she prospered
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The sensible girl dried her eyes and found herself...
another husband
71 of 74
She is an _______ ____
She is an unbroken egg
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She is a sealed...
vessel
73 of 74
The forest closed upon her like...
a pair of jaws
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Card 2

Front

a force I might not withstand

Back

The weight of his desire was...

Card 3

Front

for corruption that took my breath away

Back

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Card 4

Front

very bosom of the sea

Back

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Card 5

Front

Enough! No; more!

Back

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