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thought of me made you sick
I could not forget your conduct to me, Jane—the fury with which you once turned on me; the tone in which you declared you abhorred me the worst of anybody in the world; the unchildlike look and voice with which you affirmed that the very thought of me made you sick, and asserted that I had treated you with miserable cruelty.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

time of my marriage yet supposing
Whatever might have been the nature of Lord Byron's conduct towards me from the time of my marriage, yet, supposing him to be in a state of mental alienation, it was not for me , nor for any person of common humanity, to manifest, at that moment, a sense of injury.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

time of my marriage yet supposing
Whatever might have been the nature of Lord Byron's conduct towards me from the time of my marriage, yet, supposing him to be in a state of mental alienation, it was not for me , nor for any person of common [Pg 72] humanity, to manifest at that moment a sense of injury.
— from Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy by Harriet Beecher Stowe

time of my marriage yet supposing
Whatever might have been the nature of Lord Byron's treatment of me from the time of my marriage, yet, supposing him to have been in a state of mental alienation, it was not for me , nor for any person of common humanity, to manifest at that moment a sense of injury.'
— from Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy by Harriet Beecher Stowe

time of my marriage yet supposing
Whatever might have been the conduct of Lord Byron toward me from the time of my marriage, yet, supposing him to be in a state of mental alienation, it was not for me , nor for any person of common humanity, to manifest at that moment a sense of injury.’
— from Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Harriet Beecher Stowe

the only method macerate your subject
Unconscious thought, there is the only method: macerate your subject, let it boil slow, then take the lid off and look in—and there your stuff is, good or bad.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

time of my marriage yet supposing
Whatever might have been the nature of Lord Byron’s treatment of me from the time of my marriage, yet, supposing him to have been in a state of mental alienation, it was not for me, nor for any person of common humanity, to manifest at that moment a sense of injury.’
— from Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Harriet Beecher Stowe

the only method macerate your subject
Unconscious thought, there is the only method: macerate your subject, let it boil slow, then take the lid off and look in—and there your stuff is—good or bad.”
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 19 by Robert Louis Stevenson

the old military man you saw
A little later he managed to read at a glance: Meet the old military man you saw me with last evening.
— from Fate Knocks at the Door: A Novel by Will Levington Comfort

the one may make you susceptible
We were afraid that something about a woman was at the bottom of it, but then that is always the thing that is said, and typhoid, you know, means bad drains and not a troubled mind—though the one may make you susceptible to the other.
— from The Sorceress, v. 3 of 3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

time of my marriage yet supposing
Whatever might have been the nature of Lord Byron’s conduct towards me from the time of my marriage, yet, supposing him to be in a state of mental alienation, it was not for me, nor for any person of common humanity, to manifest at that moment a sense of injury.
— from Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Harriet Beecher Stowe


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