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  • So long had he held her in withering contempt, just because of her relationship to her father, so long had he invested her with all thinkably distasteful attributes, so long had he in his out-of-hand way named her squidge-nosed, putty-faced, pig-eyed, and so on, that in due course he had really formed his own image of her.

    Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912

  • Does the essentially material hypothesis of Kant and Laplace account for an infinite past as thinkably as it accounts for the infinite future?

    The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

  • He judged the quantity as small because it WAS small, and all the more egregiously since it couldn't, as he saw the case, so much as thinkably have been larger.

    The Ambassadors Henry James 1879

  • He judged the quantity as small because it WAS small, and all the more egregiously since it couldn’t, as he saw the case, so much as thinkably have been larger.

    The Ambassadors 2003

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