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  • She was therefore ignoring Joe and talking to me about some such item I don't remember, as I was experiencing one of my life's two drug induced moments, freaked out and unenjoying the effects of some chemical Joe of which Joe and I had partaken I had previously collapsed on the front lawn - Mary Beth had dragged me into the living room.

    Earth Day doyle 2009

  • The mistakes cherished by society respecting the connection of the sexes, whence the misery and diseases of unsatisfied celibacy, unenjoying prostitution, and the premature arrival of puberty, necessarily spring; the putrid atmosphere of crowded cities; the exhalations of chemical processes; the muffling of our bodies in superfluous apparel; the absurd treatment of infants: — all these and innumerable other causes contribute their mite to the mass of human evil.

    The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

  • Woodbridge quaffed his glass of rum in short, quick unenjoying gulps, and said not a word.

    The Duke of Stockbridge Edward Bellamy 1874

  • The coachman was used to drive his grays at a good pane, Mr. Casaubon being unenjoying and impatient in everything away from his desk, and wanting to get to the end of all journeys; and Dorothea was now bowled along quickly.

    Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

  • The coachman was used to drive his grays at a good pane, Mr. Casaubon being unenjoying and impatient in everything away from his desk, and wanting to get to the end of all journeys; and Dorothea was now bowled along quickly.

    Middlemarch 1871

  • The coachman was used to drive his grays at a good pace, Mr. Casaubon being unenjoying and impatient in everything away from his desk, and wanting to get to the end of all journeys; and Dorothea was now bowled along quickly.

    Middlemarch George Eliot 1849

  • When too feeble to visit the piazza, her easy - chair was drawn to the window, where she could gaze on it; and there she sat, uncomplaining and unenjoying, except when a rose was brought to her, and then her white lips would open with a piteous smile as she placed it in her neglected hair.

    Recollections of a Southern matron, 1838

  • The mistakes cherished by society respecting the connection of the sexes, whence the misery and diseases of unsatisfied celibacy, unenjoying prostitution, and the premature arrival of puberty, necessarily spring; the putrid atmosphere of crowded cities; the exhalations of chemical processes; the muffling of our bodies in superfluous apparel; the absurd treatment of infants: -- all these and innumerable other causes contribute their mite to the mass of human evil.

    The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

  • The mistakes cherished by society respecting the connection of the sexes, whence the misery and diseases of unsatisfied celibacy, unenjoying prostitution, and the premature arrival of puberty, necessarily spring; the putrid atmosphere of crowded cities; the exhalations of chemical processes; the muffling of our bodies in superfluous apparel; the absurd treatment of infants: -- all these and innumerable other causes contribute their mite to the mass of human evil.

    The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807

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