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  • To learn anything, he had to attain it by stealth or through an innate sense of things around him.   (source)
    innate = arising from within
  • To the best of their knowledge the American forest was the last place on earth that was not paying homage to God. For these reasons, among others, they carried about an air of innate resistance, even of persecution. Their fathers had, of course, been persecuted in England. So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest...   (source)
    innate = of a quality:  existing as an inseparable part of something greater
  • All that stuff they always had trouble treating they now treat  chemically. Take two Lithium and don't call me in the morning because there's nothing to say, it's innate.   (source)
    innate = an inseparable part (of you)
  • Brom took a deep breath and said, "To work with magic, you must have a certain innate power, which is very rare among people nowadays."   (source)
    innate = of a quality:  present at birth or existing as an inseparable part of you
  • Such is the innate politeness of the Olinka that they rushed about preparing food for them, though precious little is left, since many of the gardens that flourish at this time of the year have been destroyed.   (source)
    innate = existing as an inseparable part of her
  • They innately understand what we do.   (source)
    innately = naturally (from within, not requiring explanation)
  • While never losing the innate ability to fly, he chooses moment-by-moment to remain grounded.   (source)
    innate = existing as an inseparable part of him
  • I'd never seen Carlisle's innate calm so shaken.   (source)
    innate = natural  (present at birth)
  • But we also have an innate power of reason.   (source)
    innate = present at birth
  • Guys fight because of some primal, innate gene that makes them prove themselves physically.   (source)
    innate = of a quality:  present at birth rather than having been learned or acquired
  • And what better time to explore what's natural and innate and waiting to emerge than in springtime, the season so suited to adolescence.   (source)
    innate = present at birth
  • his innate goodness saw to it that he cared for her and lavished on her the paternal love that had never had a true outlet before,   (source)
    innate = existing as an inseparable part of him
  • I believe in our innate potential for brutality.   (source)
    innate = of a quality:  present at birth or existing as an inseparable part of something greater
  • my innate curiosity and fascination with the other-worldly quality of these apparently disconnected events.   (source)
    innate = of a quality:  present at birth or existing as an inseparable part (of self)
  • She had a quality about her...an innate frankness glossed with sophistication...that he found intriguing enough to hold his interest.   (source)
    innate = present since birth or existing as an inseparable part of (her)
  • he then tests you for innate ability and preparation.   (source)
    innate = of a quality:  present at birth or existing as an inseparable part of you
  • I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice.   (source)
    innate = inner and inseparable
  • By feeling that one has some innate superiority--it may be wealth, or rank, a straight nose, or...   (source)
    innate = present at birth or existing as a quality inseparable
  • seemed keener, more gentle, more innately sympathetic   (source)
    innately = of a quality:  present at birth or existing as an inseparable trait
  • When they are gone you must fall back upon your own innate strength, upon your own capacity for faithfulness.   (source)
    innate = of a quality:  present at birth or existing as an inseparable part of something greater
  • intellectual convictions which you, in your unexampled honesty of soul, accept unquestionably as also innate and natural and true.   (source)
    innate = existing as an inseparable part of something greater
  • How much of my delight in all beautiful things is innate, and how much is due to her influence, I can never tell.   (source)
    innate = naturally a part of me (present at birth)
  • Although the Doctor's daughter had known nothing of the country of her birth, she appeared to have innately derived from it that ability to make much of little means, which is one of its most useful and most agreeable characteristics.   (source)
    innately = of a quality:  present at birth or existing as an inseparable part of something greater
  • Through dinner, Dad would list all the false theories of science that his genius son would disprove; then after dinner, I would tell Richard about college, about classes, books, professors, things I knew would appeal to his innate need to learn.†   (source)
  • Thanks to his hard work, his innate ability, and his sheer determination, he was frequently promoted.†   (source)
  • As for immunity from microbes, what had until now been done with drugs would soon be innate.†   (source)
  • He is grateful that his mind has retained these images of her, pleased with himself, as if he has just discovered an innate talent for a sport or a game he's never played.†   (source)
  • Meredith says they idolize each other, Josh because of St. Clair's innate charisma, and St. Clair because Josh is an astounding artist.†   (source)
  • The tilt of the space where I was had a deep, innate wrongness.†   (source)
  • The critic had added a personal note: Most of us, I hope, have had some child or spouse or friend like Beatrice, someone who by his very nature, his seemingly innate goodness and intelligence, makes us uncomfortably conscious of our lies when we lie.†   (source)
  • Now the two psychological examiners established that his IQ was currently somewhere between 100 and 110—which is to say that he was no more or less innately intelligent than most of the kids in his class at Briarcrest.†   (source)
  • Well, let me assure you that English professors are not innately prurient.†   (source)
  • They were purveyors of an innately flawed kind of democracy, where only the wealthy were elected, where their voices were heard loudest, where they passed their seats in Congress to whatever similarly entitled person they deemed appropriate.†   (source)
  • Her expression softened, her innate kindness perhaps overweighing her concern.†   (source)
  • That is, I have the innate ability to learn from experience.†   (source)
  • Perverted quality; Moral perversion; The innate corruption of human nature due to original sin; Both the elect and the non-elect come into the world in a state of total d. and alienation from God, and can, of themselves do nothing but sin. y H. Blunt.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza, with her innate fortitude, confessed to the error of the letter, but refused to reveal the identity of her secret sweetheart and refused again before the Tribunal of the Order which, therefore, confirmed the verdict of expulsion.†   (source)
  • That's not a boast but a way of acknowledging the innate ability God has given to me.†   (source)
  • They put their lack of conversation down to exhaustion, for by the end of the day they were usually so tired they could barely speak, and phones themselves have the innate power of distancing one from one's physical surroundings, which accounted for part of it, but Saeed and Nadia no longer touched each other when they lay in bed, not in that way, and not because their curtained-off space in the pavilion seemed less than entirely private, or not only because of that, and when they did…†   (source)
  • ...an innate fondness for people.†   (source)
  • He'd never attended high school, but he had an innate understanding of mechanics and building concepts.†   (source)
  • So if sumo wrestlers, schoolteachers, and day-care parents all cheat, are we to assume that mankind is innately and universally corrupt?†   (source)
  • The gloves were important to her despite the way they felt, clammy but also dry, a feeling that defied innate contradiction.†   (source)
  • Our happiness levels seem to be mostly innate, and not markedly affected by what happens to us, good or bad.†   (source)
  • His innate love of running returned.†   (source)
  • If innate mental and physical toughness was his armor and faith his ace in the hole, Kelley was Adam's secret weapon.†   (source)
  • He doesn't have much of a sense of artistry or style, but he has an innate understanding of construction and balance.†   (source)
  • You have no innate sense of what you are!†   (source)
  • Major Major had never played basketball or any other game before, but his great, bobbing height and rapturous enthusiasm helped make up for his innate clumsiness and lack of experience.†   (source)
  • They were natural storytellers and beautiful singers; innately charming people who treated us like long-lost cousins.†   (source)
  • But if you did, if you had that kind of curiosity, if you had an innate interest in the welfare of your fellow human beings, and if you went through that door, a strange thing happened: you left your petty troubles on the threshold.†   (source)
  • Stillman's innate cockiness seemed to vanish and he was almost likable.†   (source)
  • He felt himself guided by an innate need to know.†   (source)
  • He could not help wondering whether her talent was innate, and if so, whether she had other talents that might interest a psychologist.†   (source)
  • For without ever spelling it out to himself and without any sense of self-satisfaction, he already knew he had in his life a kind of innate balance, the kind that others seemed to spend most of their lives striving for.†   (source)
  • Clary could see Simon's innate honesty warring with his desire to protect his best friend.†   (source)
  • After centuries of efforts to curb man's innate brutality, after centuries of teaching, training and indoctrination with the gentle and the humane!†   (source)
  • "Hello, William," Tradd answered with stiff, innate formality.†   (source)
  • Corporal Endo had no such physical problems, save his acne, and so I began to consider the possibility that his expressions were of a besieged mind, one perhaps innately tenuous and fragile and now—under duress—grown sickly and ornate.†   (source)
  • He was quite good at the programming language commonly used in manufacturing machines all over the country, and had a facility for three-dimensional visualization—seeing, in your mind, what's happening inside the machine—a skill, probably innate, that is required for any great operator.†   (source)
  • We're innately mistrustful of people who choose to live here.†   (source)
  • The energies involved mean that survival as a species if you are innately hostile becomes difficult.†   (source)
  • I might add, too, that I always sensed that it was Nathan—perhaps again because of his "seniority," or maybe because of the pure electric force of his presence—who set the tone of our conversation, although his innate tact and sense of proportion prevented him from hogging the stage.†   (source)
  • She believed alcohol brought out men's innate brutishness, made them foolish and quarrelsome, and destroyed their ability to make something of themselves.†   (source)
  • But granting the innate imperfection of the species, some cultural premises are better than others.†   (source)
  • He thought that art was no more a vocation than innate cheerfulness or melancholy was a profession.†   (source)
  • Her most appealing quality is the simple, unaffected charm of a shy convent-girlyouthfulness she has never lost-an innate unworldly innocence.†   (source)
  • Her father had a way of undermining his sister's lectures on the innate superiority of any given Finch:   (source)
    innate = natural born (present at birth)
  • [explaining why she had been cussing]  I was proceeding on the dim theory, aside from the innate attractiveness of such words, that if Atticus discovered I had picked them up at school he wouldn't make me go.   (source)
    innate = arising from their nature
  • She passed through the maze to assume the throne and to make the most of what she innately possessed, but her strength could only carry her so far.   (source)
    innately = of a quality:  present at birth; or arising from within rather than having been learned or acquired
  • We suspect, as I wrote previously, that one of the reasons some experimenters never smoke again and some turn into lifelong addicts is that human beings may have very different innate tolerances for nicotine.   (source)
    innate = of a quality:  present at birth
  • This unsophisticated girl did it by an innate perceptiveness that was almost genius.   (source)
    innate = present at birth; or arising from within rather than having been learned or acquired
  • ...full of innate sympathy...quickness to perceive good in others...vision of the brotherhood of man.   (source)
    innate = an inseparable part (of her)
  • What I saw that morning persuaded me that the scrivener was the victim of an innate and incurable disorder.   (source)
    innate = of a quality:  present at birth; or arising from within rather than having been acquired
  • Although Sartre claimed there was no innate meaning to life, he did not mean that nothing mattered.†   (source)
  • Her fingers wrapped around his with the comfort of innate acceptance.†   (source)
  • IQ is a measure, to some degree, of innate ability.†   (source)
  • The question is this: is there such a thing as innate talent?†   (source)
  • So he thought that perceiving things in time and space was innate?†   (source)
  • We sometimes think of being good at mathematics as an innate ability.†   (source)
  • But the same problem was raised here as with the baby and the innate ideas.†   (source)
  • Only some do, the innately talented ones.†   (source)
  • Which brought her to the next question: Are we born with innate "ideas"?†   (source)
  • But is it really innate, Sophie—or is it socially induced?†   (source)
  • We could say that "substance" always strives toward achieving an innate potentiality.†   (source)
  • Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings.†   (source)
  • It is neither through our own merit nor through any natural—or innate—ability.†   (source)
  • But according to Sartre, man has no such innate 'nature.'†   (source)
  • The writer could experience that his story was being written by some innate force.†   (source)
  • The ability to tell right from wrong is just as innate as all the other attributes of reason.†   (source)
  • In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.†   (source)
  • Using your innate reason means reaching down inside yourself and using what is there.†   (source)
  • Aristotle did not deny that humans have innate reason.†   (source)
  • We have no innate ideas or conceptions about the world we are brought into before we have seen it.†   (source)
  • I think we are innately suspicious of this kind of rapid cognition.†   (source)
  • "Discussing a young person's mental state is an innately disagreeable task.†   (source)
  • It didn't detract an iota from her cool, innate beauty.†   (source)
  • I have to admit that part of what I do around the winter holidays seems almost involuntary, innate.†   (source)
  • You have a tidy mind, innate style and you're a bundle of nerves.†   (source)
  • So he is under no illusions as to the innate refinement of women; but all the more reason to safeguard the purity of those still pure.†   (source)
  • Part of Mother's strength came from a deep-seated faith in God and perhaps just as much from her innate ability to inspire Curtis and me to know she meant every word she said.†   (source)
  • She wanted to find the truth, and she searched for it with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it, and she was driven by an irresistible wind even stronger than her innate haughtiness, even stronger than her dignity: an agony that bewitched her.†   (source)
  • According to Chomskyan theory, the deep structures are innate components of the brain that enable it to carry out certain formal kinds of operations on strings of symbols.†   (source)
  • And that afterward, languages have always had an innate tendency to diverge and become mutually incomprehensible-that this tendency is, as he put it, coiled like a serpent around the human brainstem.†   (source)
  • For years, students from China, South Korea, and Japan, and the children of recent immigrants who are from those countries, have substantially outperformed their Western counterparts at mathematics, and the typical assumption is that it has something to do with a kind of innate Asian proclivity for math.†   (source)
  • By that he meant truths that could be reached both through Christian faith and through our innate or natural reason.†   (source)
  • My personal opinion is that everyone is endowed with this ability, so in other words, conscience is innate.†   (source)
  • According to Descartes, the idea of God is innate, it is stamped on us from birth 'like the artisan's mark stamped on his product.'†   (source)
  • No Innate Ideas Like the philosophers before him, Plato wanted to find the eternal and immutable in the midst of all change.†   (source)
  • The expectation that the white billiard ball will move when it is struck by the black billiard ball is therefore not innate.†   (source)
  • To someone who has traveled the world, the answer should be simple: It is not "natural"—or innate—to be afraid to show yourself naked.†   (source)
  • This view implied a pointed criticism of Plato, who had held that man brought with him a set of innate 'ideas' from the world o ideas.†   (source)
  • And 'the people' were seen as an organism unfolding its innate potentiality—exactly like nature and history.†   (source)
  • We have no innate ideas, as Plato held, but we have the innate faculty of organizing all sensory impressions into categories and classes.†   (source)
  • This means nothing less than that everybody has an innate need to give artistic expression to his or her existential situation.†   (source)
  • It was characteristic of the Romantic view in general that nature was thought of as an organism, or in other words, a unity which is constantly developing its innate potentialities.†   (source)
  • That's right, a rationalist believes in reason as the primary source of knowledge, and he may also believe that man has certain innate ideas that exist in the mind prior to all experience.†   (source)
  • Are we born with innate "ideas"?†   (source)
  • So man has no innate "ideas."†   (source)
  • Darwin had, after all, distanced God a good way from the act of creation, although there were admittedly some who claimed it was surely greater to have created something with its own innate evolutionary potential than simply to create a fixed entity.†   (source)
  • They could for example point out that the use of an expression like "natural modesty" is not always defensible, for if it is "natural" to be modest, it must be something you are born with, something innate.†   (source)
  • And that is innate?†   (source)
  • For other people, it's an ability to read others, and those people—with an innate ability to draw on memories, common sense, and experience and to codify it quickly and accurately—manifest an ability that strikes others as being supernatural.†   (source)
  • Eragon considered the elves' restraint an innate characteristic of their race, as well as a natural outcome of their rigorous upbringing, education, and use of the ancient language.†   (source)
  • Alf seidr is innate.†   (source)
  • Not innately.†   (source)
  • And then the whisper I'd found inside me traveled up from my belly and out of my throat and past my lips, making a noise that didn't sound like language, but whose meaning I knew innately.†   (source)
  • But Cain was right in his perception that some innate change had taken place in the nature of the tumult down the gallery.†   (source)
  • Apparently, though, Frey's children didn't inherit an innate understanding of what the heck that meant.†   (source)
  • In fact, the theme of Smith's first book, The Them) of Moral Sentiments, was the innate honesty of mankind.†   (source)
  • No matter whom he met or where he was, she had no doubt that he had an innate ability to make others—especially women—feel as if he was in kinship with them.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart felt perceptive enough to realize that visible signals of recognition were never necessary between sophisticated, self-assured people like himself and General Peckem who could warm to each other from a distance with innate mutual understanding.†   (source)
  • Through the system, we would learn of our inner reserves of strength, our innate capacity to resist violence.†   (source)
  • My mother never went to college, never had that chance, but she is beautiful and intelligent and possesses a natural class so innate that when I bring her to Charleston and introduce her to Commerce and to Abigail and to Tradd, it's as though she had lived in this city for a hundred years.†   (source)
  • He liked her for it…for her innate need to compete and for the vulnerability beneath the confidence.†   (source)
  • The horses were like horses the world over: the shaft horse pulled with the innate honesty of a simple soul while the off horse arched its neck like a swan and seemed to the uninitiated to be an inveterate idler who thought only of prancing in time to the jangling bells.†   (source)
  • ...or perhaps it was some innate sense of delicacy and fitness...†   (source)
  • She was a good teacher of mathematics: number to her was innate.†   (source)
  • Here it is in modern English: Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compels the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.†   (source)
  • Her dislike for him was innate.†   (source)
  • "Their innate sense of right has been violated," Maud Brewster said, joining the conversation.†   (source)
  • Most of the misery had been generated by her conventional aspect, and not by her innate sensations.†   (source)
  • To Leonard, intent on his private sin, there came the conviction of innate goodness elsewhere.†   (source)
  • He failed dismally where the woman was slightly experienced and possessed innate refinement.†   (source)
  • His innate goodnature, however, dictated a favorable reply.†   (source)
  • He was drawn by his innate desire to act the old pursuing part.†   (source)
  • She possessed an innate taste for imitation and no small ability.†   (source)
  • "Well, for cool native impudence and pure innate pride, you haven't your equal," said he.†   (source)
  • I have not known the man to whose innate kindliness I would more confidently make an appeal.†   (source)
  • Conscience is the quantity of innate science which we have within us.†   (source)
  • Malevolence was not, perhaps, innate in him.†   (source)
  • In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary—never—no one.†   (source)
  • Man's actions proceed from his innate character and the motives acting upon him.†   (source)
  • That it was not innate caprice he was more and more certain.†   (source)
  • He would be confident and depressed all in the same breath, as if some conviction of innate blamelessness had checked the truth writhing within him at every turn.†   (source)
  • In the last analysis, that would scarcely be called the fault of the decorations, but rather of the innate trend of the mind.†   (source)
  • Everything that presumed itself worth preserving and that the pallid, cowardly, conservative bourgeoisie attempted to preserve—state and family, worldly art and science—had always stood in conscious or unconscious opposition to the religious ideal, to the Church, whose innate tendency and unswerving goal was the dissolution of the existing world order and the remaking of society on the model of an ideal, communistic City of God.†   (source)
  • "But I'll tell you how it is, Dad," Gilbert persisted, anxious and determined because of his innate opposition to Clyde to keep him there if possible.†   (source)
  • They held that one ought to set before children, and that children shewed their own innate good taste in admiring, only such books and pictures as they would continue to admire when their minds were developed and mature.†   (source)
  • Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.†   (source)
  • Now something such an one was Claggart, in whom was the mania of an evil nature, not engendered by vicious training or corrupting books or licentious living, but born with him and innate, in short "a depravity according to nature."†   (source)
  • In one's own home it is as if little, innate sympathies draw one to particular chairs that seem to enfold one in an embrace, or take one along particular streets that seem friendly when others may be hostile.†   (source)
  • Reaching home, he mused over his curious superstition, innate or acquired, in doing this, and the strange forgetfulness which had led to such a lapse from common sense and custom in one who wished, next to being a scholar, to be a Christian divine.†   (source)
  • Her innate dignity would always keep her from making the gift abjectly; and a day might even come (as it once had) when she would find strength to take it altogether back if she thought she were doing it for his own good.†   (source)
  • But an innate repugnance to playing a part at all approaching that of an informer against one's own shipmates—the same erring sense of uninstructed honor which had stood in the way of his reporting the matter at the time though as a loyal man-of-war-man it was incumbent on him, and failure so to do if charged against him and proven, would have subjected him to the heaviest of penalties; this, with the blind feeling now his, that nothing really was being hatched, prevailed with him.†   (source)
  • In their separate cells, many of those who through fear or contrition, or because of innate religious convictions, had been recalled to some form of shielding or comforting faith, were upon their knees praying.†   (source)
  • Now, I have come to the conclusion that the basis of all that has happened, has been first of all your innate inexperience (remark the expression 'innate,' prince).†   (source)
  • He was perpetually slinking away; whenever seen he was seen moving off deviously, his face over his shoulder, with either a mistrustful snarl or a woe-begone, piteous, mute aspect; but no assumed expression could conceal this innate irremediable abjectness of his nature, any more than an arrangement of clothing can conceal some monstrous deformity of the body.†   (source)
  • That innate love of melody, which she had inherited from her ballad-singing mother, gave the simplest music a power over her which could well-nigh drag her heart out of her bosom at times.†   (source)
  • He was always irreproachable dressed, and wore the exaggerated "Incroyable" fashions, which had just crept across from Paris to England, with the perfect good taste innate in an English gentleman.†   (source)
  • "You wouldn't have her live, like you, among a lot of broken-down chairs and threadbare carpets!" she exclaimed, the innate respectability of the middle-class housewife rising impulsively to the surface through the acquired dilettantism of the 'light woman.'†   (source)
  • So it was that although throughout her infancy and girlhood she was compelled to hear of and share a depriving and toilsome poverty, still, because of her innate imagination, she was always thinking of something better.†   (source)
  • Her son's force must be due to the innate ability of her husband as well as the strain of some relatives in her own line who had not been unlike Gilbert, while Clyde probably drew his lesser force from the personal unimportance of his parents.†   (source)
  • However, her boy, whatever the present charge might be, was not innately bad, and she could not believe that he was guilty of any such crime.†   (source)
  • PREPARED as Clyde was to dislike all this, so steeped had he been in the moods and maxims antipathetic to anything of its kind, still so innately sensual and romantic was his own disposition and so starved where sex was concerned, that instead of being sickened, he was quite fascinated.†   (source)
  • We see man far removed from the lairs of the jungles, his innate instincts dulled by too near an approach to free-will, his free-will not sufficiently developed to replace his instincts and afford him perfect guidance.†   (source)
  • At the same time so innately pagan and unconventional were his thoughts in regard to all this that he could now ask himself, and that seriously enough, why should he not be allowed to direct his thoughts toward her and away from Roberta, since at the moment Sondra supplied the keener thought of delight.†   (source)
  • And here Mr Ralph Nickleby had reckoned without his host; for however fresh from the country a young lady (by nature) may be, and however unacquainted with conventional behaviour, the chances are, that she will have quite as strong an innate sense of the decencies and proprieties of life as if she had run the gauntlet of a dozen London seasons—possibly a stronger one, for such senses have been known to blunt in this improving process.†   (source)
  • Only the vicissitudes of life can show us its vanity and develop our innate love of death or of rebirth to a new life.†   (source)
  • The Delawares who knew by these symptoms that the mind of their friend was not prepared for so mighty an effort of fortitude, relaxed in their attention; and, with an innate delicacy, seemed to bestow all their thoughts on the obsequies of the stranger maiden.†   (source)
  • But no brutality disgusted her: I suppose she has an innate admiration of it, if only her precious person were secure from injury!†   (source)
  • Thinks I, Queequeg, under the circumstances, this is a very civilized overture; but, the truth is, these savages have an innate sense of delicacy, say what you will; it is marvellous how essentially polite they are.†   (source)
  • They knew full well that this fugitive must be a bandit; but there is an innate sympathy between the Roman brigand and the Roman peasant and the latter is always ready to aid the former.†   (source)
  • Men seeing the nature of this man like that of the brute, think that he has never possessed the innate faculty of reason.†   (source)
  • It has been demonstrated by observation, and discovered by the innate sagacity of the pettiest as well as the greatest of despots, that the influence of a power is increased in proportion as its direction is rendered more central.†   (source)
  • In vain will some innate propensity raise the mind towards the loftier spheres of the intellect; interest draws it down to the middle zone.†   (source)
  • The innate love of harmony and beauty that set the ruder souls of his people a-dancing and a-singing raised but confusion and doubt in the soul of the black artist; for the beauty revealed to him was the soul-beauty of a race which his larger audience despised, and he could not articulate the message of another people.†   (source)
  • Susan, who had an innate taste for the genteel and well-appointed, was eager to hear, and Fanny could not but indulge herself in dwelling on so beloved a theme.†   (source)
  • At times he raised his eyes wistfully, as if he would again address Middleton, but some innate feeling appeared always to suppress his words.†   (source)
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