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. girl into a came room opened the the and door. Agatha Christie

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2. a I wrapped feeling was parcel brown-paper badly like. P. G. Wodehouse

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3. least haven’t idea I the. Cyril Hare

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

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5. things full which any is world chance nobody of by ever obvious the observes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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6. a myself prefer for to wife choose I. A. A. Milne

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