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Barton glanced hurriedly, almost shamedly, at the several names and incidents, and knew surprise ere he committed the document to the flames.
THE KANAKA SURF 2010
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My wife and I met my friend and his wife for drinks on Sunday evening and R told us how her grandmother confessed, almost shamedly, that she cast her early ballot (in Georgia) for Obama.
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Whatever I'm definitely in need of treatment myself because I was worryingly transfixed by it in that rubber-necking way that has you shamedly watching gruesome events unfold.
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Whatever I'm definitely in need of treatment myself because I was worryingly transfixed by it in that rubber-necking way that has you shamedly watching gruesome events unfold.
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Whatever I'm definitely in need of treatment myself because I was worryingly transfixed by it in that rubber-necking way that has you shamedly watching gruesome events unfold.
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And then, half shamedly, they caught him high upon their shoulders and bore him down the stairs and out the door.
The Witness Grace Livingston Hill Lutz
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Barton glanced hurriedly, almost shamedly, at the several names and incidents, and knew surprise ere he committed the document to the flames.
The Kanaka Surf 1919
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Then she herself took her place on the sofa, shamedly.
Sons and Lovers 1913
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Paul merely looked at him shamedly, and did not answer.
Sons and Lovers 1913
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Through all the fear that now possessed her rose the consideration of this man -- this man whom she had almost confessed half-shamedly to herself that she loved, that night on the Liege road; this man who at every turn amazed her and filled her with a new sense of his strength and dignity.
The Trampling of the Lilies Rafael Sabatini 1912
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