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... seemed at the time irresistible . I found myself unable , by any conscious act of volition , to control either the plot or the style . Nor from my present point of view do I particularly admire either the one or the other . At the same ...
... seemed at the time irresistible . I found myself unable , by any conscious act of volition , to control either the plot or the style . Nor from my present point of view do I particularly admire either the one or the other . At the same ...
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... seemed a little cowed by my vehe- mence , which some might have thought amounted to rudeness , but would not abandon the field . " The result , " she said , " of impoverishing the Church will be , that you will only get literates to go ...
... seemed a little cowed by my vehe- mence , which some might have thought amounted to rudeness , but would not abandon the field . " The result , " she said , " of impoverishing the Church will be , that you will only get literates to go ...
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... seemed to have taken a start in the right direction nearly two thousand years ago , and now it has all slipped back again worse than ever , and is whirling the wrong way with a rapidity that makes one giddy . I feel more giddy than ...
... seemed to have taken a start in the right direction nearly two thousand years ago , and now it has all slipped back again worse than ever , and is whirling the wrong way with a rapidity that makes one giddy . I feel more giddy than ...
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... seemed an age . I gasped for breath , so she kindly came to my relief . " C My dear Lord Frank , " she said , " after all it might have been worse . Supposing that Lord Grandon had not been your friend , or had not had the absurd ...
... seemed an age . I gasped for breath , so she kindly came to my relief . " C My dear Lord Frank , " she said , " after all it might have been worse . Supposing that Lord Grandon had not been your friend , or had not had the absurd ...
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... seemed to puzzle , and make her nervous . 66 " What- Oh , it is not at all ' original , ' " said I. ever other merit it possesses , it can't claim original- ity — it is the commonest thing in the world ; but I think it is an acquired ...
... seemed to puzzle , and make her nervous . 66 " What- Oh , it is not at all ' original , ' " said I. ever other merit it possesses , it can't claim original- ity — it is the commonest thing in the world ; but I think it is an acquired ...
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