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sat up flushing in a novel
Then, by a sudden movement, he sat up, flushing in a novel embarrassment.
— from Gloria Mundi by Harold Frederic

still used for interments and new
This is still used for interments, and new graves are occasionally dug here.
— from The London Burial Grounds Notes on Their History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Isabella M. Holmes

springs up from it as naturally
Out of very love she was content to be the [255] one left alone; and found a truth in Wordsworth's beautiful saying, that "a grave is a tranquillising object; resignation, in course of time, springs up from it as naturally as the wild flowers besprinkle the turf."
— from Mary Lamb by Anne (Anne Burrows) Gilchrist

seem ungrateful for I am not
Let me not seem ungrateful, for I am not.
— from Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth Century by Vernon Lee

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