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Examples
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The production would have been what the French call a solemnity.
Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Arnold Bennett 1899
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He had never worked, and there had been very rarely any servants to disturb him, but the door remained invested with a kind of solemnity.
The Dark House 1922
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` ` I didn't, '' echoed Archer with a kind of solemnity.
The Age of Innocence 1920
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I didnt, echoed Archer with a kind of solemnity.
XXXIV. Book II 1920
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Mrs. Peyton sat upright, gazing at him with a kind of solemnity.
Sanctuary Edith Wharton 1899
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"I didn't," echoed Archer with a kind of solemnity.
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1899
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Women's voices, shrill, and with falsetto notes, made the trees ring with it; low, bass voices gave it a kind of solemnity.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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Women's voices, shrill, and with falsetto notes, made the trees ring with it; low, bass voices gave it a kind of solemnity.
The World for Sale, Volume 3. Gilbert Parker 1897
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Women's voices, shrill, and with falsetto notes, made the trees ring with it; low, bass voices gave it a kind of solemnity.
The World for Sale, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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"And that's how they've tied their lives, thae young things!" said Marg'ret also with a kind of solemnity.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891
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