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She resumed her seat, and her lips were again sealed; their close compression and ashy hue alone told that the torture of the mental rack upon which she was stretched had been augmented As soon as Madeleine felt the count's hand relaxing its firm grasp, she withdrew hers, though he made a faint attempt to detain her.— Fairy Fingers A Novel
Their looks meant what their lips were afraid to utter--the dread word "murder Then Jerry laughed This is nonsense," he said.— The Camp in the Snow, or, Besieged by Danger
He bent his head; their lips were almost touching; he held her closely.— There was a King in Egypt
The last thing I remember passing my lips was about her collar's being a little crooked,--and just now she told me, as though it was the crack of Doom, that it wasn't what I said, but what it meant, that was so awful.— The Squirrel-Cage
'Go at once No, you must say the rest first,' he insisted, and his lips were almost touching her ear.— Stradella

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