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Another thing that I have observed that prevents the cast-down feeling is a way of eating.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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Another thing that I have observed that prevents the cast-down feeling is a way of eating.
Monday Morning 2007
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So cast-down they are barely able to move, Daniel and Connie retreat to the bar.
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So cast-down they are barely able to move, Daniel and Connie retreat to the bar.
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I found him a dirty, cast-down, snivelling drunkard; and, looking at poor Nora, could not but wonder at the days when I had thought her a divinity.
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The widow Bevis, in particular, put out one lip, tossed up her head, wrinkled her forehead, and made such motions with her now lifted-up, now cast-down eyes, as showed that she thought there was
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Princess was watching her closely under her cast-down eyelashes.
The Grell Mystery Frank Froest
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The naughty little eyes twinkled; the naughty little mouth opened to emit his short-breathed pants; and the naughty little tongue hung out as he pranced and leaped, rolled and gamboled over the cast-down and dejected peas.
The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives Elizabeth Strong Worthington
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It is this that makes them cast-down, sorrowful, joyless
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"I am no longer cast-down," I heard her murmur; "I know you will do -- what is right."
The Paternoster Ruby Charles Edmonds Walk
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