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  • My heart beat and my color rose as we went up the great carpeted staircase, and I noticed about me all the studied refinements of English comfort; I was infatuatedly bourgeois; I forgot my origin and all my personal and family pride.

    The Magic Skin 2007

  • English, infatuatedly trusting to the integrity of their army, should be startled with news of an Irish regiment revolting from political considerations.

    Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Why, after having so long infatuatedly clung to Guizot, did he at once ignobly relinquish him?

    Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Clement King Shorter 1891

  • They may be frivolous, extravagant, reckless, misguided wives of poor clerks or hard-working mechanics, infatuatedly following out the first consequences of a matinee at the theatre, and a "personal" in the daily newspaper.

    Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Abraham H. Hummel 1887

  • She commissioned him to go straightway to Roy in London, and my father's having infatuatedly left his own address for Prince

    The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • She commissioned him to go straightway to Roy in London, and my father's having infatuatedly left his own address for Prince Ernest's in the island, brought Hermann down: he only met Eckart in the morning train.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • She commissioned him to go straightway to Roy in London, and my father's having infatuatedly left his own address for Prince

    The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 8 George Meredith 1868

  • They may be the frivolous, extravagant, reckless wives of poor clerks or hard-working mechanics, infatuatedly following out the first consequences of a matinee at the theatre and a 'Personal' in the

    Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862

  • But as matters really stood, to watch Miss Ingram's efforts at fascinating Mr. Rochester, to witness their repeated failure -- herself unconscious that they did fail; vainly fancying that each shaft launched hit the mark, and infatuatedly pluming herself on success, when her pride and self-complacency repelled further and further what she wished to allure -- to witness this, was to be at once under ceaseless excitation and ruthless restraint.

    Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. I. 1848

  • English comfort; I was infatuatedly bourgeois; I forgot my origin and all my personal and family pride.

    The Magic Skin Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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