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And as for short stories, there is none more powerful than Katherine Anne Porter's "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall."
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Jilting my pen for a laptop, I fell in love with the PC.
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I had to write a report on Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt by the way, I do NOT recommend that book; an essay on the concept of the female self as seen in Maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman, Katherine Anne Porter's The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, and Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle; and a proposal/abstract for my final paper.
MA Class, Eragon (part 3), and Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception Tarie 2005
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I had to write a report on Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt by the way, I do NOT recommend that book; an essay on the concept of the female self as seen in Maxine Hong Kingston's No Name Woman, Katherine Anne Porter's The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, and Tillie Olsen's Tell Me a Riddle; and a proposal/abstract for my final paper.
Archive 2005-05-01 Tarie 2005
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A depressing quantity are dramas and comedies of Edwardian life ( "The Jilting of Jane"), rather painful attempts at humor ( "My First Aeroplane"), near-autobiography ( "A Slip Under the Microscope"), or pure sadism ( "The Cone").
The Wind from The Sun Clarke, Arthur C. 1962
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Imputation of Jilting, and Wheedling, and hinting, for a Courtship, in order to
John Adams diary 3, includes commonplace book entries, spring and summer 1759 1961
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Yet he had as numerous a family as Mr. Frankland; three sons and two daughters: Idle Isaac, Wild Will, Bullying Bob, Saucy Sally, and Jilting
Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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Jilting Jessy had certainly given Frank reason to believe she was very fond of him; but the sudden change in her fortune quite altered her views and opinions.
Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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Patty and Fanny were soon united to their lovers; that James, with Mr. Cleghorn's consent, married Miss Cleghorn; and that Frank did not become an old bachelor: he married an amiable girl, who was ten times prettier than Jilting Jessy, and of whom he was twenty times as fond.
Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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Jilting him, and I had the Assurance to acquaint him with the following Maxim, That I should always believe that Man's Passion to be the most Violent, who could offer me the largest Settlement.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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