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which her eyes now looked larger
She looked down at her expanded figure and in the glass at her pale, sallow, emaciated face in which her eyes now looked larger than ever.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

why her existence now lies like
‘So I will not now ask why Emily was torn from us in the fulness of our attachment, rooted up in the prime of her own days, in the promise of her powers; why her existence now lies like a field of green corn trodden down, like a tree in full bearing struck at the root.
— from Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter

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