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

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

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

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

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

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

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