Sentegrams

These sentences, taken from English literature, have been jumbled up like an anagram; see if you can piece them back together.

Introduction

The sentences below, taken from well-known authors, have been jumbled up. See if you can restore them to their original order, with appropriate punctuation. Just as the word ‘listen’ can make meaningless anagrams (ilnets) and also meaningful ones (tinsel, silent, enlist), so also these jumbled sentences could make more than one intelligible sentence — but which one did our author write?

1. night master that murdered your was know last you. Agatha Christie

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2. Once his Speedwell smile more smiled crafty Mr. Freeman Wills Crofts

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3. believe are cannot I serious you. A. A. Milne

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4. slight his on a was of there cheek annoyance flush. John Buchan

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5. pull in nerve years million you a the wouldn’t to that find trigger. P. G. Wodehouse

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6. place flocked the fairly to they. P. G. Wodehouse

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