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“This is insupportable!” cried Delvile, with vehemence,
Cecilia 2008
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I followed his action with my eyes, and it was the action of an arm gesticulating, with the utmost passion and vehemence,
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Exasperated at this sarcasm, he replied, with great vehemence,
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When I pronounced these words with some vehemence,
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When Sir ROGER saw _Andromache's_ obstinate refusal to her lover's importunities, he whispered me in the ear, that he was sure she would never have him; to which he added, with a more than ordinary vehemence,
The Coverley Papers Various
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"But if those boys had died first," cried Rickie with sudden vehemence,
The Longest Journey 1924
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They were silent for a moment, then Enoch said, with a quiet vehemence,
The Enchanted Canyon Honor�� Morrow 1910
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"And you believed them then and there," she said with great vehemence,
The Scarlet Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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Then onward speeds her course with greater vehemence,
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892
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I exclaimed, this time with considerable vehemence,
That Affair Next Door Anna Katharine Green 1890
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