"anissa" hidden in books

and noise I still secretly and

Amidst the glare, and hurry, and throng, and noise, I still secretly and chiefly longed to come on that circular mirror of crystal, and surprise the moon glassing therein her pearly front.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

and now it seems smooth and

But it always had a rippling wave in it then, and now it seems smooth and straight.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

And no ideals shall suffer after

And no ideals shall suffer after all.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

are not intentional strictly speaking as

This excludes from the scope of such judgments those conscious actions which are not intentional, strictly speaking; as when sudden strong feelings of pleasure and pain cause movements which we are aware of making, but which are not preceded by any representation in idea either of the movements themselves or of their effects.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

And now I shall sit and

And now, I shall sit and play, and weep like a fool.
— from Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And now it seemed strange and

And now it seemed strange and sad that just as he was about to go away to the North, and breathe the salt air again, and find the strong west winds blowing across the mountain-peaks and through the furze, Sheila, a daughter of the sea and the rocks, should be hiding herself in obscure lodgings in the heart of a great city.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various

after noon it stopped snowing and

But soon after noon it stopped snowing and began to lighten up.
— from Track's End Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There as Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full by Hayden Carruth

are not I should suppose altogether

“You are not, I should suppose, altogether unaware of the manner in which—I mean of the provisions of your husband’s will?”
— from Allison Bain; Or, By a Way She Knew Not by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

at night in silk stockings and

Trotting about late at night in silk stockings, and getting wet more than once in the winter rains, gave Tino a bad cold.
— from Lulu's Library, Volume 3 (of 3) by Louisa May Alcott

and nation is strong simple and

They will only remain unshaken while the family life of our race and nation is strong, simple, and pure."
— from Birth Control: A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians by Halliday Sutherland

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