Is it for this I have refused the addresses of burgomasters' wives and daughters, where I could have made my fortune and my satisfaction, to keep myself entirely for a thing that betrays me, and keeps every secret of her heart from me?
— from Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn
"Give me a kiss, Ern," she pleaded in sullen voice that quavered a little.
— from One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex by Alfred Ollivant
In this little meeting at Kabwe even some of the older ones who started are still striving to get on the Rock.
— from South and South Central Africa A record of fifteen years' missionary labors among primitive peoples by Hannah Frances Davidson
By L. A. Sornet and M. J. Acatos , Modern Language Masters at King Edward’s School, Birmingham.
— from A Catalogue of Books and Announcements of Methuen and Company, October 1902 by Methuen & Co.
Added to the natural effect of such tales as these was the inherent exuberance of Brougham's disposition and the bent of his mind to mathematics and kindred exact sciences.
— from Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters by H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce
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