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the analysis is clumsily handled or when
The injuries blamed upon psychoanalysis are limited essentially to temporary aggravation of the conflict when the analysis is clumsily handled, or when it is broken off unfinished.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

trail and in concealing his own when
He received careful training, also, in following an Indian trail and in concealing his own when on the warpath.
— from American Leaders and Heroes: A preliminary text-book in United States History by Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) Gordy

trees and I came here once with
They're nice people," she continued, as the little party began walking toward the group of trees, "and I came here once with my friends the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion, to fight a wicked witch who had made all the Winkies her slaves."
— from The Road to Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

this atmosphere is congenial however overgrown with
And yet there is an element in our shy and dumb English nature to which this atmosphere is congenial, however overgrown with money-making our minds had seemed to be.
— from Philip Massinger by Alfred Hamilton Cruickshank


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