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. her Darcy towards drew little Mr his a chair. Jane Austen

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2. too is business my waste on urgent time apologies to. John Buchan

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3. you a I don’t mixed want trial in murder to take up be it. Freeman Wills Crofts

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4. entranced on sat looked beside at he and down a log her fallen her. A. A. Milne

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5. you my girl is brooch wicked where. P. G. Wodehouse

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6. is a fox but sly nothing there that over little spy. Baroness Orczy

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