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. words Birdsey’s full too heart for almost was Mr. P. G. Wodehouse

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2. East from fear new I things the these. John Buchan

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3. fairly they the flocked place to. P. G. Wodehouse

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4. replied cough fretfully my not own I for do amusement Kitty. Jane Austen

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5. these Cheyne’s thoughts like passed mind a through flash. Freeman Wills Crofts

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6. was about Katie dancing wild. P. G. Wodehouse

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