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The second meal was infinitely gayer on the surface though a certain kind of strainedness a little like the strainedness in the pauses of a perfectly friendly football game when both sides are too evenly matched to score ran through it.
Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920
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Still, whatever strainedness there was could hardly have been Mrs. Severance's fault.
Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920
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Annette chattered on, entirely oblivious of the strainedness of the men's adieux, and still chattered as they drove through the pines.
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson 1905
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