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There was little desertion now; in these hills, the best source of food was our wagons, and deserters would have httle hope of surviving with the enemy so close behind.
Enjoyment 2010
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It was embarrassing now to recall with what httle regret he had let slip his pleasures and preoccupations, the imminence of loss revealing them for what they were, at best only a solace, at worst a trivial squandering of time and energy.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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With how httle reason, my dearest sister, my excellent friend!
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If your motive be motherly love, httle, madam, sin CHARLES GRANDISON.
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Anne McCaffrey raced, and I knew that my answering laugh was a httle high and foolish.
Nerilka's Story McCaffrey, Anne 1986
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'Conscience,' says Barndale, blushing a httle more perceptibly, 'has httle to do with this disturbance.
An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray
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'I am disturbed in mind,' says Barndale, blushing a httle behind his bronze, 'about an incident of yesterday.'
An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray
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After vainly trying by a series of strategic movements to drive out the lawful owner, it rushed on to the web, and the two envenomed httle duellists closed in mortal combat.
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But in other letters he seems not a httle afraid of detection or suf - 'mise.
Junius: Including Letters by the Same Writer Under Other Signatures: to which are Added His ... Junius, John Mason Good 1812
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As her mind had now now hesn for many years in a degree lightened of its overwhelming load, she had recovered her usual embonpoint, and her complexion had lost but httle of its original loveliness.
Temper ; or, Domestic scenes : a tale in three volumes Opie, Amelia 1812
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