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. I you the he all are most the in lady world lovely said think. A. A. Milne

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2. murderer any you clue the to have. Freeman Wills Crofts

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

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4. to girl proposing I after same the week am of week tired. A. A. Milne

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5. and at I be to home want just happy sit. P. G. Wodehouse

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

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