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From "Christine Falls"

"Quirke had positioned himself by the fireplace again and was regarding each in turn, like a spectator at a tennis match."

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From "Athena"

"Aunt Corky has been following these exchanges like a spectator at a tennis match."

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From "The Infinities"

"Petra too is still watching the pair of them, back and forth, back and forth, like a spectator engrossed in a tennis match"

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From "The Book of Evidence"

"The girl had been watching us, turning her eyes slowly from one to the other of us, like a spectator at a tennis match."

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From "The Sea"

"The Colonel, increasingly alarmed, looked wildly from one of them to the other and back again, his eyes clicking in their sockets, as if he were watching a tennis match that had started in friendly enough fashion but had suddenly turned murderous."