Sentegrams

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

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

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2. want acting way been an a I and you’ve in explanation suspicious. Freeman Wills Crofts

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3. deserve you did did I me not what that of say. Jane Austen

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4. with kind intermittent an splutter of pilgrim Mr spoke generally. George Eliot

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5. to of he his nail wall the a outhouse hung coat. Thomas Hardy

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6. way a the of clever disposing pistol very of. Agatha Christie

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