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  • Is my return, my rise to power, not the very thing they professed to desire for so many years?†   (source)
  • The Commander continues with the service: "I will that women adorn themselves in modest apparel," he says, "with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; "But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.†   (source)
  • As she talked, she bobbed her head back and forth to the MTV music, even though the song was the kind of manufactured pop ballad she professed to hate.†   (source)
  • Aerys Targaryen must have thought that his gods had answered his prayers when Lord Tywin Lannister appeared before the gates of King's Landing with an army twelve thousand strong, professing loyalty.†   (source)
  • HUNDREDS IN THIS [NEW YORK] COLONY ARE ACTIVE AGAINST US AND SUCH IS THE WEAKNESS OF THE GOVERNMENT, (IF IT CAN DESERVE THE NAME) THAT THE TORIES OPENLY PROFESS THEIR SENTIMENTS IN FAVOUR OF THE ENEMY, AND LIVE UNPUNISHED.†   (source)
  • They first discussed whether Anne should be allowed to use the table, yes or no. Father said that he and Dussel had dealt with the subject once before, at which time he'd professed to agree with Dussel because he didn't want to contradict the elder in front of the younger, but that, even then, he hadn't thought it was fair.†   (source)
  • "Because is wrong to profess faith if I don't observe properly.†   (source)
  • You, a self-professed cynic, are positing that the squirrel is a superhero.†   (source)
  • Professing his innocence to her was futile, as professions of innocence were likely all she heard all day.†   (source)
  • Notes professing devotion are passed in the hallways, dropped on desktops or placed discreetly inside school folders.†   (source)
  • With some guilt, he thinks of Zabi and Lemar back in San Jose, who have long professed their dislike of their Afghan names, who are fast turning into little tyrants, into the imperious American children he and Nahil had vowed they would never raise.†   (source)
  • There were those who professed not to see the irony of their inaction.†   (source)
  • He professed to speak only English, Latin and Greek though in actuality, he spoke a dozen languages well, and understood at least a dozen more, even Arabic and a smattering of the language of Cathay.†   (source)
  • He never professed to have skills greater than his subordinates.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was for similar reasons that an elegant older woman with beautiful silvery hair lived there but did not participate in the uninhibited life of the naked women, who professed sacramental respect for her.†   (source)
  • "You profess to read minds?" she asked.†   (source)
  • And while she knew that statistics show most people who profess faith in Christ do so at a young age, it was Colton's passionate insistence on Christ's love for children that gave Sonja fresh energy for our kids' ministry.†   (source)
  • I was sure if he could talk, he would profess his humiliation and assure us that he had tried, really tried, to hold it in.†   (source)
  • And she thought she understood what she had long sought to understand, that she concealed her love for Ishmael Chambers not because she was Japanese in her heart but because she could not in truth profess to the world that what she felt for him was love at all.†   (source)
  • At the time there were a lot of confirmed materialists who did not believe in a God, and who professed to atheism.†   (source)
  • Seven's considered a magickal number by those who profess to magicks, black and white.†   (source)
  • Haiti had not only the most popular elected head of state in the world but one who professed liberation theology and had promised to lift the country into "dignified poverty."†   (source)
  • Without being kind, he was sentimental, and Dick's affection for his parents, his professed concern for them, did indeed touch him.†   (source)
  • Ida professed herself very struck by the change in Eric —she meant by this that she disapproved of surprises and that Eric had surprised her—and the implacable, unaccountable Puritan in her disapproved of his new and astonishing affair.†   (source)
  • Professing myself, moreover, convinced that the General's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled by whomsoever it may concern….†   (source)
  • For example, here you are, one of the richest young fellows of my acquaintance, living along very contentedly where every tenet you profess to hold is daily outraged.†   (source)
  • The first is that neither of us professes to be a parenting expert (although between us we do have six children under the age of five).†   (source)
  • My mother always jokes about the wounds: oh, not the wounds themselves but the fact that he professes to forecast: weather by the phantom pains and throbbings in his arms and legs.†   (source)
  • Some women swore that they would not speak to her; others professed fascination.†   (source)
  • 'Senate Aide Convicted of Treason: Senator Donaldson Professes No Knowledge of Aide's Action.'†   (source)
  • My mother peeked—and found a letter professing his love to this Mexican woman who was apparently the mother of his children.†   (source)
  • To be professing his love for me onstage one minute and then thinking I was making out with Javi the next?†   (source)
  • Among the cocky, self-absorbed boys at the university with their pomaded hair and empty talk of philosophy, and the melodramatic few who had professed their love to her at the sight of her naked body, there was not one with even half as much experience as Litvinoff.†   (source)
  • Bishop Long is angry tonight, angry at people "who profess to love God and speak the Word but don't live the deed.†   (source)
  • Even if he had pretty much professed his love for me in a letter.†   (source)
  • Yet to define one or the other by means of the theoretical principles it professes is all but impossible.†   (source)
  • She was too shy to profess it, I told myself.†   (source)
  • In this world Alvin was as much an angel as he was the Satan he professed to be.†   (source)
  • The society she lived in professed at the same time to believe gender was insignificant.†   (source)
  • He professed himself pleased with the response of Washington and the speed with which his ideas had been implemented.†   (source)
  • All the time they had been professing loyalty to the parent state, "and the strongest protestations of loyalty to me," they were preparing for rebellion.†   (source)
  • The stories were important, serious, in a time when the word reporter did not conjure images of some doofus asking a woman with a ring in her nose why she professed love to a man with a giant safety pin through his eyebrow and claimed that he once glimpsed Elvis in a plate of scrambled eggs.†   (source)
  • I go in just a matter of minutes to profess that same love before God, family and all our friends.†   (source)
  • We proclaim you Death, my mother, and profess your resurrection.†   (source)
  • The movie was exactly what it professed to be.†   (source)
  • In general, I don't care for cheaters and liars, but I have a much higher standard for people who profess to be Christians.†   (source)
  • They professed to love him for some unknown reason and they ignored all the things for which he could wish to be loved.†   (source)
  • Given Rowan's professed need for its acquisition, I think our price is very reasonable.†   (source)
  • Nor could I help but notice that Commerce, despite his objections to the city, had chosen to live out his life in the dead center of the tribe he professed to hate.†   (source)
  • Though he was accused by many anti-slavery proponents as "a Northerner with a Southern heart," he professed no strong opinion one way or the other to the holding of slaves, saying only that it was totally up to each state to decide the legality and propriety of the issue.†   (source)
  • This is when she professed a desire to travel-she hadn't yet said alone-and then in the next breath admitted she'd told the school people not to call for a while.†   (source)
  • The opposition often sounded so much like warriors that no one believed them when they professed to be against war.†   (source)
  • These soldiers were white, but they professed to fight for the freedom of another race as well as of their own.†   (source)
  • The people speak the same language and profess the same religion.†   (source)
  • He professes a heartfelt belief in the southern cause, while she is the daughter of a ferociously partisan northern senator.†   (source)
  • The dwarf openly professed no love for battle, but he swung his notched axe with deadly accuracy and shrugged off blows that would fell an ogre.†   (source)
  • He predicts that history will come to see his conviction as "shameful for Athens," though he professes to have no ill will for the jurors who convict him.†   (source)
  • The agent was older than the others, a small man who always dressed impeccably, a logician and former accountant who professed such loyalty that Lin almost made him a confidant, but had pulled himself up short when he was close to revealing things he should not reveal.†   (source)
  • But he would have none of it—not her name, not her professed ethnicity, not her faith, not the story of her childhood in France, at least not all of it.†   (source)
  • You'll remember this as the same theater where I professed my love for Cate and much later, after I'd thawed out, saw her with her fiancé.†   (source)
  • He believed that any man who professed it must be incredibly naive.†   (source)
  • One can only speculate upon Von Niemand's later career, but if he was at all like his chief, Rudolf Hoss, and the SS in general, he had styled himself Gottglaubiger—which is to say, he had rejected Christianity while still outwardly professing faith in God.†   (source)
  • In regarding my Work, some Readers profess greater Feeling for what it makes than for what it says.†   (source)
  • It did not seem that as professedly religious a man as Dave would suddenly be contemplating the blackmail business.†   (source)
  • Yet thanks I must you con, That you are thieves profess'd; that you work not In holier shapes: for there is boundless theft In limited professions.†   (source)
  • More especially we pray for thy holy Church universal; that it may be so guided and governed by thy good Spirit, that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life.†   (source)
  • He would rely, he told his audience in that still fascinating voice, "upon the Constitution and the Union, all the old Jacksonian democracy I ever professed or officially practiced…… In politics I am an old fogy, because I cling devotedly to those primitive principles upon which our government was founded."†   (source)
  • Our lives are no less serious than if we professed real faith, real belief.†   (source)
  • Many people consequently professed to what is known as Deism.†   (source)
  • "You did, though, in the end, despite your professed innocence," she said, smiling.†   (source)
  • Then, ever so slowly, she squeezed my hand to profess her confidence in me.†   (source)
  • Self-professed proponent of the 4 Fs: find 'em, feel 'em, fug 'em, and forget 'em.†   (source)
  • The Jacobins profess to admire and respect the independence ofMr.†   (source)
  • "Because the genius thing," Hassan went on as if Colin hasn't just professed his love, "is nothing.†   (source)
  • Few Union soldiers professed to fight for racial equality.†   (source)
  • Although he professes usual moral standards he seems obviously uninfluenced by them in his actions.†   (source)
  • If you despise negativism as you just professed to do, what do you think inspired this reputation?†   (source)
  • You've always professed your admiration for me.†   (source)
  • She pitied his "weakness" and took much that he professed to be "hollow."†   (source)
  • Much of his strength and capacity for study were gone, Adams professed.†   (source)
  • I looked at the address and professed ignorance.†   (source)
  • The Colonel and I said nothing, while a bunch of people who didn't know Alaska extolled her virtues and professed to be devastated, and at first, it bothered me.†   (source)
  • When he died, McCandless was wearing a blue sweatshirt printed with the logo of a Santa Barbara towing company; when contacted, the wrecking outfit professed to know nothing about him or how he'd acquired the shirt.†   (source)
  • The great majority of Tutsis remained cow-keepers, many of whom did some farming, and, as before, they shared with Hutus the same religions (some 70 percent professed Christianity by the end of colonization), the same language, and the same hills.†   (source)
  • "I command you once more, in King Joffrey's name, to prove the loyalty you profess and open these gates," said Ser Amory.†   (source)
  • She never professed such things.†   (source)
  • False friends, treacherous servants, men who had professed undying love, even her own blood …. all of them had deserted her in her hour of need.†   (source)
  • He and Adams had known each other for years, and Lovell professed only the warmest regard for Adams, as well as for Abigail.†   (source)
  • She wrote a letter of recommendation to the University of Massachusetts, her alma mater, professing that she'd never seen a young man overcome so much.†   (source)
  • And there he was: Lancel, her cousin, Ser Kevan's son, who had once professed to love her, before he decided that he loved the gods more.†   (source)
  • It was a strange thing to hear from a Korean man, and I wondered what circumstance would have had to arise for my father to profess openly a feeling like that.†   (source)
  • Genet professed to be just as enamored with medicine as I was, but she was often late joining me at the study table, and she packed it in earlier than I did.†   (source)
  • For how can one slight, shrinking-in-the-bones fellow be such a lingering pall of sickness and mortality, casting darkly upon his associates and friends and recently discovered loved ones, who (almost) to the last profess their happiness for having known him, and for knowing him still?†   (source)
  • What should we say to men who profess a love for republican government, yet boldly impeach the fundamental principle of it?†   (source)
  • By agreeing to Clinton's plan—by committing a force of such numbers to a night march through unknown country, led like the blind by three local farmers who might or might not be all they professed—William Howe was putting his army at extreme risk.†   (source)
  • Even in private letters, Confederate soldiers professed more often to fight for liberty and against slavery—that is, against their own enslavement to the North.†   (source)
  • I didn't know anything at the time; Dennis had been as cryptic and evasive as ever, Jack professing nothing.†   (source)
  • Yet people who oppose the new Constitution, people in New York who profess an unlimited admiration for New York's constitution, are demanding a bill of rights.†   (source)
  • I could understand why she should become upset, that she was perhaps sad for the end of her maidenhood (which I thought then was the most precious ore of any woman), but hadn't I professed my devotion to her, hadn't I in mitigation said the words that should let her know what I was intending for us, after the war?†   (source)
  • Since childhood, you have been hiding the guilty secret that you feel no desire to be moral, no desire to seek self-immolation, that you dread and hate your code, but dare not say it even to yourself, that you're devoid of those moral 'instincts' which others profess to feel.†   (source)
  • The pull of Charleston was lunar and feminine and partisan and even affected those natives, like Commerce, who professed to loathe her extensive artifice and the carnivorous etiquette of its social structure.†   (source)
  • They professed to feel betrayed.†   (source)
  • Destruction is the only end that the mystics' creed has ever achieved, as it is the only end that you see them achieving today, and if the ravages wrought by their acts have not made them question their doctrines, if they profess to be moved by love, yet are not deterred by piles of human corpses, it is because the truth about their souls is worse than the obscene excuse you have allowed them, the excuse that the end justifies the means and that the horrors they practice are means to…†   (source)
  • Time and again when away, Adams would profess preference for the simple domestic life by Penn's Hill above anything he knew; time and again, on reaching home, he would say that there and there only was everything he desired.†   (source)
  • …and the guiltiest among you are the men who had the capacity to know, yet chose to blank out reality, the men who were willing to sell their intelligence into cynical servitude to force: the contemptible breed of those mystics of science who profess a devotion to some sort of 'pure knowledge' the purity consisting of their claim that such knowledge has no practical purpose on this earth-who reserve their logic for inanimate matter, but believe that the subject of dealing with men…†   (source)
  • Let a man corrupt his values and his view of existence, let him profess that love is not self-enjoyment but self-denial, that virtue consists, not of pride, but of pity or pain or weakness or sacrifice, that the noblest love is born, not of admiration, but of charity, not in response to values, but in response to flaws-and he will have cut himself in two.†   (source)
  • At the end of another long stretch at Quincy, Adams would write of a summer spent "so deliciously in farming that I return to the old story of politics with great reluctance," and Jefferson would profess that "tranquility becomes daily more and more the object of my life, and of this I certainly find more in my present pursuits than those of any other part of my life."†   (source)
  • Yet as before, Adams remained reluctant to profess his love for her, though it was from the heart that he wrote:May Heaven permit you and me to enjoy the cool of the evening of life in tranquility, undisturbed by the cares of politics and war—and above all with the sweetest of all reflections that neither ambition, nor vanity, nor any base motive, or sordid passion through the whole course of great and terrible events that have attended it, have drawn us aside from the line of duty and…†   (source)
  • Nobody professed to understand the question of the frozen railroad bonds; perhaps, because everybody understood it too well.†   (source)
  • No matter whose welfare he professes to serve, be it the welfare of God or of that disembodied gargoyle he describes as 'The People,' no matter what ideal he proclaims in terms of some supernatural dimension-in fact, in reality, on earth, his ideal is death, his craving is to kill, his only satisfaction is to torture.†   (source)
  • Adams professed to be perfectly content in his new "employment," but how long this tranquility would continue, he could not honestly say.†   (source)
  • There is no form of enjoyment that we seek from their world, and-this was hardest for us to attain-what we now feel for their world is that emotion which they preach as an ideal: indifference-the blank-the zero-the mark of death…… We are giving men everything they've professed to want and to seek as virtue for centuries.†   (source)
  • He felt, Adams wrote, as though he were receding slowly into the background, yet professed to mind not at all.†   (source)
  • Even Jefferson, who had so warmly welcomed Genet at first, now professed strong agreement with the President's stand.†   (source)
  • I never swerved from any principle, I never professed any opinion—I never concealed even any speculative opinion—to obtain a vote.†   (source)
  • Professing that reasonable men ought to be able to reach a compromise, Jeffer-son invited Hamilton and Madison to dine at his house the next day.†   (source)
  • What John and Abigail Adams may have thought of this from the man who had professed to believe that all men are created equal is not known.†   (source)
  • CONCERNING SUCH MATTERS as who was to be the next governor of Massachusetts or the next President of the United States, Adams professed to take increasingly less interest.†   (source)
  • They had no plans for the future, except to return to Quincy and take up the life they had both professed so often to want more than anything else, except that this time it would be to stay.†   (source)
  • "He professes himself so much happier having his family with him, that I feel amply gratified in having ventured across the ocean," Abigail wrote to her sister Elizabeth.†   (source)
  • Other guests were included and Abigail left an undated account of a conversation with Jefferson, who was seated beside her and professed not to know several members of Congress at the table.†   (source)
  • After years of seclusion at Monticello, Jefferson had, with amazing agility, stepped back into the kind of party politics he professed to abhor, and in no time emerged as leader of the opposition.†   (source)
  • Abigail mistakenly understood that Jefferson had liberated the "wretch" Callender from jail, and this to her was totally unacceptable, after the attacks Callender had made on Adams, a man, she reminded Jefferson, "for whom you professed the highest esteem and friendship."†   (source)
  • Early in February 1796, on the same day Benjamin Franklin Bache declared in the Aurora that "good patriot" Jefferson was the inevitable and ideal choice to replace Washington, Adams professed to be tired of politics.†   (source)
  • Vergennes's professed need to see the instructions Gerard was bringing was disingenuous, since Gerard had long since sent Vergennes a summary of Adams's instructions, in a dispatch from Philadelphia the very day they were adopted by Congress.†   (source)
  • …life to separate his religious beliefs from his political activities…… I am a Protestant and a dry, yet I would support a man who was a wet and a Catholic provided I believed he was sincerely in favor of law enforcement and was right on economic issues…… I'd rather trust an honest wet who is progressive and courageous in his makeup than politicians who profess to be on the dry side but do no more to make prohibition effective than all the rum runners and bootleggers in the country.†   (source)
  • He professed a genuine interest in the island and the children I was teaching and asked me what methods I was using to improve the kids' reading ability.†   (source)
  • Certainly he disliked him, certainly he professed a contempt for him.†   (source)
  • You give them what they profess to like in public.†   (source)
  • Boxer professed not to be sorry for what had happened.†   (source)
  • He said: "I do not, of course, profess to be a weather prophet.†   (source)
  • He was skeptical about this, or anyhow professed to be.†   (source)
  • All that he had read in books, all the tranquil wisdom he had professed so glibly in his philosophy course, and the great names of Plato and Plotinus, of Spinoza and Immanuel Kant, of Hegel and Descartes, left him now, under the mastering surge of his wild Celtic superstition.†   (source)
  • So far as I knew, my mother, though not a professed atheist, had never given a thought to religion in her life.†   (source)
  • He professed to be in love with her.†   (source)
  • …opportunity to pass from the scene of one scarce imaginable delight to the next one without interval or pause or satiety; and the very fact that, lounging before them in the outlandish and almost feminine garments of his sybaritic privacy, he professed satiety but increased not only the amazement but the bitter and hopeless outrage; —Henry, the provincial, the clown almost, given to instinctive and violent action rather than to thinking, ratiocination, who may have been conscious that…†   (source)
  • Cottard had always professed very liberal ideas, as his pet dictum on economic questions, "Big fish eat little fish," implied.†   (source)
  • " ' " The World Savior's cross, in spite of the behavior of its professed priests, is a vastly more democratic symbol than the local flag.†   (source)
  • Lincoln's democracy was not broad enough to transcend color lines, but on this score it had more latitude than the democracy professed by many of his neighbors and contemporaries.†   (source)
  • Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of political parties.†   (source)
  • Some of the people said that the elephant had gone in one direction, some said that he had gone in another, some professed not even to have heard of any elephant.†   (source)
  • "To profess what?" asked the King of the Moat slowly, hardly opening his jaws and speaking through his nose.†   (source)
  • While professing a mild agnosticism himself, he had a liking for the shows of religion and was perfectly agreeable to having his children brought up Catholic; he believed, however, in the prudent restriction of his family to two boys and a girl, comfortably spaced over twelve years, and did not demand, as a Catholic husband might, yearly pregnancies.†   (source)
  • My position in the household was a delicate one; I was a minor, an uninvited dependent, a blood relative who professed no salvation and whose soul stood in mortal peril.†   (source)
  • Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse — hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.†   (source)
  • The frustrated wretch who professes love for the inferior and clings to those less endowed, in order to establish his own superiority by comparison.†   (source)
  • …as legal adviser and man of business to the above described lady and young gentleman, whose loyalty and gratitude toward one whose generosity has found him (I do not confess this; I proclaim it) in bread and meat and fire and shelter over a period long enough to have taught him gratitude and loyalty even if he had not known them, has led him into an action whose means fall behind its intention for the reason that he is only what be is and professes himself to be, not what he would.†   (source)
  • There remained now but a few young men who, belonging to no church and professing no religion, were scattered sheepishly about the pews.†   (source)
  • Even the so-called Christian nations—which are supposed to be following a "World" Redeemer—are better known to history for their colonial barbarity and internecine strife than for any practical display of that unconditioned love, synonymous with the effective conquest of ego, ego's world, and ego's tribal god, which was taught by their professed supreme Lord: I say unto you, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you.†   (source)
  • The Enemy will also try to render real in the patient's mind a doctrine which they all profess but find it difficult to bring home to their feelings--the doctrine that they did not create themselves, that their talents were given them, and that they might as well be proud of the colour of their hair.†   (source)
  • The Wart thought to himself that he did not care for Mr. P. "Lord," said Merlyn, not paying attention to his nervousness, "I have brought a young professor who would learn to profess."†   (source)
  • But the fact that he kept on asking the question seemed to imply he was less sure than he professed to be.†   (source)
  • Rieux had already noticed Grand's trick of professing to quote some turn of speech from "his part of the world" (he hailed from Montelimar), and following up with some such hackneyed expression as "lost in dreams," or "pretty as a picture."†   (source)
  • He tried to draw me into a discussion about alcohol, professing to have saved my life with it.†   (source)
  • Pearce, Oliver, Smith—all the best of my Legion—profess loyalty to me.†   (source)
  • One was professing to have seen the Martians.†   (source)
  • Each of these informants professed himself to be his very good friend.†   (source)
  • Not knowing the facts then, he did not profess to understand, and refrained from comment.†   (source)
  • An', Jane, only one of the miracles Dyer professes to believe in can save him!"†   (source)
  • "Well, I don't profess to understand it yet.†   (source)
  • I don't profess to be different from my kind.†   (source)
  • This passion Celine had professed to return with even superior ardour.†   (source)
  • This man pursued Miss Havisham closely, and professed to be devoted to her.†   (source)
  • The professed nuns also wear a rosary at their side.†   (source)
  • This is the law by which my white brethren professes to live?†   (source)
  • "I don't profess to understand every young lady's taste."†   (source)
  • "The little baggage hath witchcraft in her, I profess," said he to Mr. Dimmesdale.†   (source)
  • I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won.†   (source)
  • Then you profess ignorance of the crime with which you are charged?†   (source)
  • And who profess Him, Saying: I believe in Him!†   (source)
  • Mr. Skimpole professed himself much flattered and honoured.†   (source)
  • "Ah, I don't profess to teach English, certainly," said M. Nioche.†   (source)
  • The culprit falters excuses, and professes a determination to do better tomorrow.†   (source)
  • Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live.†   (source)
  • He does not profess to have more than second-hand knowledge there.†   (source)
  • But are you so insensible as you profess yourself?†   (source)
  • Bingley was every thing that was charming, except the professed lover of her daughter.†   (source)
  • 'Does he gloomily profess to be (I am ashamed to use the word in such association) religious still?'†   (source)
  • Can you fully trust me, and thoroughly rely on what I profess, Esther?†   (source)
  • Well; all sorts of humbugs profess morality.†   (source)
  • It was such acts of kindness as these for which he professed to feel grateful to my grandmother.†   (source)
  • Mr Dorrit professed himself obliged, and went down.†   (source)
  • It was as if a professed unbeliever in ghosts should be frightened by a ghost story.†   (source)
  • He professed himself extremely anxious about her fair friend—her fair, lovely, amiable friend.†   (source)
  • Compeyson is the man who professed to be Miss Havisham's lover."†   (source)
  • Darcy professed a great curiosity to see the view from the Mount, and Elizabeth silently consented.†   (source)
  • Jerry hoarsely professed himself at Miss Pross's service.†   (source)
  • His visitor professes his regret to hear it and asks him does he remember Jo.†   (source)
  • I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.'†   (source)
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