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  • Gord's the scruffy highwayman, so void of charm and passion,

    Stand And Deliver! Dungeekin 2009

  • Gord's the scruffy highwayman, so void of charm and passion,

    Archive 2009-04-01 Dungeekin 2009

  • "Look here," he said, in a voice that shook with passion,

    Chapter XVIII 2010

  • ‘When I am off this cursed bed,’ said the invalid, actually striking at his broken leg in the ecstasy of his passion,

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

  • Like all women carried away for the first time by passion,

    Two Poets 2007

  • Like all women carried away for the first time by passion,

    Two Poets 2007

  • By raising Lazarus from the dead before Your passion,

    Lenten Weblog 2005

  • As the bull stood pausing, meditating whether under such circumstances flight would not be preferable to gratified passion,

    The Small House at Allington 2004

  • Sophia heard the whole story at table, where she said nothing: nor indeed could her aunt get many words from her as she returned home; but her maid, when undressing her, happening to say, “Well, miss, I suppose you have seen young Master Blifil to-day?” she answered with much passion,

    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

  • ‘Gaston Vandeloup!’ she hissed in his ear, while her face was quite distorted by the violence of her passion,

    Madame Midas 2003

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