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Give me leave to say, Sir, that if deaf-eared anger will neither grant me a hearing, nor, what I write a perusal, some time hence the hard-heartedness may be regretted.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Why should I burn, why should I cut myself, and sigh out my griefs under the windows of the deaf-eared charmer?
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier
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Blind-eyed, deaf-eared, and choked with failing breath?
Poems Christina Georgina Rossetti 1862
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Give me leave to say, Sir, that if deaf-eared anger will neither grant me a hearing, nor, what I write a perusal, some time hence the hard-heartedness may be regretted.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725
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