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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
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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.
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Woodbridge quaffed his glass of rum in short, quick unenjoying gulps, and said not a word.
The Duke of Stockbridge Edward Bellamy 1874
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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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