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I feel a heart which beats unstilled in contours of this land – the heart you gave so fervently with tireless love to flowers and trees you breathed upon it providence, a promise deigned with consequence of solid guarantees, why did you have to leave?
Archive 2009-04-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2009
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I feel your heart which beats unstilled although the pain is clear – am I a sacrifice you need to have it disappear...
Sacrifice Ivan Donn Carswell 2009
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I feel your heart which beats unstilled although the pain is clear – am I a sacrifice you need to have it disappear...
Archive 2009-04-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2009
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I feel a heart which beats unstilled in contours of this land – the heart you gave so fervently with tireless love to flowers and trees you breathed upon it providence, a promise deigned with consequence of solid guarantees, why did you have to leave?
Sacrifice Ivan Donn Carswell 2009
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Ms. Sebold's achievements her ability to capture both the ordinary and the extraordinary, the banal and the horrific, in lyrical, unsentimental prose; her instinctive understanding of the mathematics of love between parents and children; her gift for making palpable the dreams, regrets and unstilled hopes of one girl and one family.
The Lovely Bones: Summary and book reviews of The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. 2002
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But this demolished beauty like her own soul, though killed, still quivered and ached with the unstilled pain of life.
Hungry Hearts 1920
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At times the book would fall upon her lap and there was such a look of unstilled yearning in her violet eyes that it did not entirely disappear even when she picked up the apple that lay beside her and took another bite out of it.
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Stephen Leacock 1906
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But the consciousness that her father purposed such a fate for her, however far postponed, was enough to double all the unanswered longing, the unstilled pain.
A Victor of Salamis William Stearns Davis 1903
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That is a vivid metaphor for the fragmentary satisfaction which all earthly good gives, leaving a deep yearning unstilled.
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868
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Great God! Is this what it is to live again ... to wake up with our unstilled thirst upon us, with our unuttered curses rising to our lips, with our muscles ready to act out their half-committed sins?
The Lifted Veil George Eliot 1849
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