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He experienced a disagreeable sensation every time
He experienced a disagreeable sensation every time Maria Nikolaevna referred to Gemma.
— from The Torrents of Spring by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

have entertained and do still entertain the
Between you and myself there never has been a personal difference; [Pg 7] but I have entertained, and do still entertain the opinion, that your conduct as an officer, since the affair of the Chesapeake, has been such as ought to forever bar your readmission into the service.
— from Correspondence, between the late Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron, which led to the unfortunate meeting of the twenty-second of March by Stephen Decatur

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