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The poor lady smiled neuralgically, panted with fright, scrabbled about the small oak table to find her eye-glasses, and continued, "We will first have the pleasure of hearing Mrs. Jenson on the subject ` Shakespeare and Milton. '"
Main Street 1920
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Many Chinese have long suspected that America is out to thwart their country’s rise and react neuralgically to anything that appears to confirm these suspicions.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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Many Chinese have long suspected that America is out to thwart their country’s rise and react neuralgically to anything that appears to confirm these suspicions.
Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011
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The poor lady smiled neuralgically, panted with fright, scrabbled about the small oak table to find her eye-glasses, and continued, “We will first have the pleasure of hearing Mrs. Jenson on the subject ‘Shakespeare and Milton.’
Main Street 2004
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The poor lady smiled neuralgically, panted with fright, scrabbled about the small oak table to find her eye-glasses, and continued, "We will first have the pleasure of hearing Mrs. Jenson on the subject
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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