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his own daughter even selling her
The idea of a man trying to get rid of his own daughter, even selling her body and soul, for that is exactly what it amounts to.
— from My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 1. September 29, 1900. From Farm to Fortune; or Only a Farmer's Daughter by Lurana Sheldon

his own determined expression showed her
She glanced at Trask, and his own determined expression showed her that she could hope for nothing from him save on his own terms.
— from The Mystery Girl by Carolyn Wells

hour of dire extremity showed herself
The gentle Reuther in that hour of dire extremity, showed herself stronger than her mother who had fallen in a faint amid the crowd.
— from Dark Hollow by Anna Katharine Green

her one desire ever since her
She had believed then in the honesty of his professions of love, though she had felt too sisterly towards him to yield to his wishes; and it had been her one desire ever since her own happy marriage to see him happily married also.
— from Grit Lawless by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young

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