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cunning little expected the impending storm
But there was one on whom her passion alighted, who with all her cunning little expected the impending storm.
— from Shrewsbury: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

circumstance led Edward to insert some
This circumstance led Edward to insert some observations regarding that destructive insect, the Locusta migratoria , which passed over this country in the year 1846, the ever-memorable potato-famine year.
— from Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society. Fourth Edition by Samuel Smiles

cry like every thing if she
"Belle used to fret and cry like every thing if she didn't have what she wanted," she said to herself; "but she doesn't now.
— from Mamie's Watchword by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

convenient Lord Exmoor that I should
Ernest stood a second irresolute, while the Earl tramped angrily up and down the drawing-room, and then he said in a calmer voice, ‘When would it be convenient, Lord Exmoor, that I should leave you?’
— from Philistia by Grant Allen

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