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After a copious meal he bestowed upon me a stately benediction, and would have embraced me, but I humbly bent over his hand: sad to relate, immediately that his back was turned,
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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A. Boisfeuillet, in his own kind of sinister way, somehow either turned,
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It was another few days before she snapped at Chris, without looking his way, and keeping her back turned,
Flowers In The Attic Andrews, V. C. 1979
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He tossed a paper of comfits into her lap; she turned,
Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne
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It is only when the weaving stops, and the web is loosed and turned,
Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Various
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Till shame into glory, till fear into zeal was turned,
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As quickly as we read, it melts and shifts in the memory; even at the moment when the last page is turned,
The Craft of Fiction Percy Lubbock 1922
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Would you say of your men, when the week has been turned,
The Path to Home 1920
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QUOTATION: Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Quotations 1919
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When you come in, sir, I was just putting it to my fellow-partner, 'towards whom he turned,
David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917
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