The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.
The street of crocodiles and other stories (ed. Penguin Classics, 2008)
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
