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Examples
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Noun's mistress, and then deserted her to make a rich marriage.
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He next made love to poor Noun's mistress, and then deserted her to make a rich marriage.
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The allusion he had just made to Noun's death confirmed her in that idea; for she knew absolutely nothing of that story and took the words that Ralph had let fall in his indignation for a fragment of thought unconnected with his subject.
Indiana 1900
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She had wound about her head a handkerchief of India silk, tied carelessly in true creole style; it was Noun's usual headdress.
Indiana 1900
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He took pleasure in giving a free rein to his emotion as he wandered through the garden where Noun's light footprints seemed to be still visible on the gravel, and through those great rooms which seemed still to retain the echoes of Indiana's soft words; but soon the presence of a new hostess changed the current of his thoughts.
Indiana 1900
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Do not believe, however, that he was insensible to Noun's ruin.
Indiana 1900
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Nothing could be more humiliating to him than to be reproached for his crime by the woman who had been his innocent accomplice; nothing more bitter than to see Noun's rival lamenting her death.
Indiana 1900
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It will be well not only to admit you to the secret of her thoughts, but also to enlighten you as to the situation of the various persons whom Noun's death had affected in greater or less degree.
Indiana 1900
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The two glass panels which repeated Noun's image ad infinitum seemed to be peopled by a thousand phantoms.
Indiana 1900
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Every time that Madame Delmare had spoken to the gardener, Noun's name had been injected, as if by an unavoidable necessity, into the most trivial details, and then Monsieur de Ramière's had always glided in by virtue of some mysterious junction of ideas which seemed to have taken possession of the man's brain and to beset him in spite of himself.
Indiana 1900
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