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  • Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea.†   (source)
  • You're a steadfast girl.†   (source)
  • It's now a matter of remaining calm and steadfast, of gritting our teeth and keeping a stiff upper lip!†   (source)
  • His vigil was unwavering and steadfast, unbroken by food or drink.†   (source)
  • My steadfast husband tore his hair in private.†   (source)
  • Right then what the SEALs call A-guys usually showed up, very professional, very steely, steadfast in their requirements and the necessary outcome of the interrogation.†   (source)
  • Poor Tinker Bell and the Steadfast Tin Soldier?†   (source)
  • She sat steadfast and unmovable in the living room, "just catching up on a bit of admin."†   (source)
  • All the same, I remain steadfast in my belief that my life was meant to be the bringing of fine literature to young minds.†   (source)
  • Moving apace with the river was a long single-file line of men, eyes aimed at their feet, shoulders tense, walking steadfastly nowhere.†   (source)
  • And as long as I was steadfast, then no doubts ever crossed your minds, any of you.†   (source)
  • The Crows had both passed away years before, and now their son Nicholas inhabited the place, steadfastly carrying on the border war with Bob Timmons, who had phlebitis in his legs these days and walked stiffly to clear the branches from where they fell among his cedar trees.†   (source)
  • Hickock obeyed, with an expression that the detective interpreted as a pleading with him to speak, to accuse, and let the prisoner escape into the sanctuary of steadfast denial.†   (source)
  • Alex watched Lacy kneel beside her son and that was all it took to trip the switch: Josie's steadfast loyalty to Peter suddenly seemed to only be a weight dragging her down.†   (source)
  • Some grouse excitedly flew away to another patch of willows nearby, but she steadfastly ignored them as she continued to lift the stick slowly while the remaining birds walked about faster.†   (source)
  • for a brave lad with a stout heart, a steadfast dog, and a serviceable small automobile.†   (source)
  • But then, that's who Helene is: Her faith is steadfast.†   (source)
  • How many days and nights had I spent perched up there with Sam, steadfastly ignoring Vanessa's attempts to drag us into some stupid, pointless conversation?†   (source)
  • True, there were good men out there-men who loved with all their hearts and remained steadfast in the face of great obstacles-the type of man she'd wanted to meet since she and David divorced.†   (source)
  • Like many other Chicagoans, especially those with strong economic interests in the city, White would steadfastly refuse to believe that a significant number of people had panicked, rioted, or engaged in any sort of criminal acts.†   (source)
  • Larry had been steadfast for all those years waiting for me to go to prison; now that I was here, could we make it through the real test?†   (source)
  • Her pegasus's eyes were wild, his mouth slathering from hard riding; but Reyna peered steadfastly forward into the storm.†   (source)
  • But when the Boss started to court other possible proteges, strong-bodied young agents who would serve a social function more than a Bureau function, Clyde knew it was time to submit to Edgar's need for a steadfast and unquestioning friend, a mate of soul and word and unvarying routine.†   (source)
  • Janice and Larry's steadfast faith has been an inspiration—they have channeled their grief into something positive."†   (source)
  • Here I was, leaving behind our great nation of communists with its steadfast beliefs and ideology forever supporting us.†   (source)
  • And second, I have a steadfast rule about musicians.†   (source)
  • At least, the words "Lady Eleanor" were spoken often, but the person they described—dutiful parent, loyal citizen, steadfast spouse—sounded more like the high chancellor than like my mother.†   (source)
  • I ask the night sky but the silence is steadfast.†   (source)
  • Within seconds all the sisters knew a 'strange creature' had been seen, a ghostlike creature, and the two slave maids steadfastly refused to investigate.†   (source)
  • Her eyes continued to bore into me, but I did not waver in my steadfastness.†   (source)
  • I was trying to decide where to peg my own truth, how much to reveal about myself—it helped to have such a steadfast father in Ghosh, never fickle, never prying, but knowing when I needed him.†   (source)
  • Not a love demonstrated in gushing words or heart-wrenching desire, but by loyalty and steadfastness for not only them but for his country, for the world.†   (source)
  • But he wanted mainly his friend of midnight consultations, his comrade of many battles, who over the weary years had remained steadfast in defeat as in victory.†   (source)
  • More determined courage and steadfastness in troops have never been experienced, or a greater ardor to distinguish themselves, as all those who had an opportunity have amply evinced by their actions.†   (source)
  • She is five or more years my senior, and as such I never knew her in school as I did Melissa, with whom I have enjoyed a steady and steadfast companionship.†   (source)
  • He had stood faithfully in her corner like a steadfast tin soldier.†   (source)
  • And if God sends a lion to rip your flesh, will you stand steadfastly then, too?†   (source)
  • But that was one of the many things I loved about Marsha: her steadfast commitment.†   (source)
  • Even a steadfast enemy was better than a waffler, and her new-model army and navy had never waffled.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, the thankless smee remains steadfast after serving as a steed, masquerading as a hag, and suffering that brute's attentions.†   (source)
  • Unlike the real Winston Churchill, Diem is not a firm and steadfast friend of the American people or the United States of America.†   (source)
  • He did not name to himself the nature of his own feeling-never to identify his emotions was the only steadfast rule of his life; he merely felt it-and this particular feeling was pleasurable, which was the only identification he cared to know.†   (source)
  • And if we see it in ourselves, we must root it out and replace it with steadfast discipline.†   (source)
  • Though he believed slavery to be a disgusting institution, Thompson was a steadfast proponent of legal precedent who would never let personal opinions interfere with the judgment of a case.†   (source)
  • But, no, Mom remains the steadfast politician.†   (source)
  • My mother was steadfast in her faith in God.†   (source)
  • This is what we should be like, Miss Lumley implies: steadfast, loyal, courageous, heroic.†   (source)
  • "I'm trying my very best, Poppa," she'd say innocently, with her dark brown eyes gazing steadfastly up into mine.†   (source)
  • Everyone else on the lawn, seemingly used to Vicky's outbursts, is steadfastly ignoring what they've just heard.†   (source)
  • Agorwal had agreed to a meeting, but Kemp was steadfastly against it.†   (source)
  • I've always believed that if we did what was morally and ethically right, while continuing to steadfastly believe in what we were doing, we'd end up okay in the end.†   (source)
  • When they came back, he held a parcel wrapped in brown paper and steadfastly refused to reveal what it was.†   (source)
  • There was once a time, during the darkest days of the Cold War, when American foreign policy was characterized by consensus and steadfastness.†   (source)
  • We've always thought that if we did what was morally and ethically right, while continuing to steadfastly believe in what we were doing, we'd be okay in the end.†   (source)
  • She steadfastly refused to climb above three hundred feet, and the revolution indicators for both engines remained fixed at about three quarters of their proper readings.†   (source)
  • Feeling puny in my predicaments as I read about the tragic logic of Osip Mandelstam's fate in the 1930s, feeling challenged yet steadfast in my noncombatant status when I heard, for example, that one particularly sweetnatured school friend had been interned without trial because he was suspected of having been involved in a political killing.†   (source)
  • On The Day itself, whatever else he might be doing, he was never beyond sound of a radio, awaiting the news that ought to accompany war—news of victories or defeats, mobilization, proclamations, declarations, a message from the President, words of leadership, steadfastness and unity.†   (source)
  • Jean looked at him steadfastly, and decided that, on the whole, she liked what she saw.†   (source)
  • What he is trying to do, ostensibly, is develop a new market, since the evil Duke of Squamuglia has steadfastly refused, even with the lower rates and faster service of the Thurn and Taxis system, to employ any but his own messengers in communicating with his stooge Pasquale over in neighboring Faggio.†   (source)
  • Even so, when his complaints grew louder and his animadversions more serious and cutting, she steadfastly refused to entertain any idea of leaving her job, as uncomfortable as the whole situation seemed to make Nathan feel.†   (source)
  • There waiting, silent and still in the space before the Gate, sat Gandalf upon Shadowfax: Shadowfax who alone among the free horses of the earth endured the terror, unmoving, steadfast as a graven image in Rath Danen.†   (source)
  • I put in a phone call to my dear, steadfast friend, Bernie Schein.†   (source)
  • Only be steadfast: for now, my dear, my darling, the moment comes when hunger and love will be forever satisfied.†   (source)
  • Well, we had not, and so we went our way with nothing to call our own save what we wore, past the food stall with set steadfast face, past the bazaar with never a glance, pressing on to reach the shelter of our son's house before worse should overtake us.†   (source)
  • He was a Southerner, and yet he steadfastly maintained his loyalty to the Union.†   (source)
  • RICH (Moves swiftly to exit; turns) I would be steadfast!†   (source)
  • Throughout his tenure, the camerlegno's steadfast devotion had become legendary.†   (source)
  • Langdon could feel himself trapped between Katherine's logic and Bellamy's steadfast urging.†   (source)
  • 'twas he who had been my steadfast friend since the day they brought me here.†   (source)
  • "Murtagh has been a steadfast friend and an unwavering ally," said Eragon firmly.†   (source)
  • In all things, Logan was calm and steadfast, she reflected.†   (source)
  • Be you of true heart and steadfast resolve?†   (source)
  • As the tale goes, there had never been a more capable, steadfast imp than Yuga.†   (source)
  • Yes," said Cynthia, steadfastly ignoring Lucia's giggles.†   (source)
  • How can they be pardoned for Vietnam, for their conduct in Nicaragua, for their steadfast and gross contribution to the proliferation of nuclear arms?†   (source)
  • If you have a sister back home, you're supposed to think of her as a pretty girl in a propaganda poster: rosy-cheeked, brave, steadfast.†   (source)
  • Peter's faith in God was so steadfast that Jesus called Peter "the rock"-the unwavering disciple on whose shoulders Jesus would build his church.†   (source)
  • That last howling scream, exactly like the first, and then at the end a fixed, steadfast moving backward out of this world.†   (source)
  • Bitter arguments erupted, Claude adamant that the stray be shot, Edgar's father steadfastly refusing.†   (source)
  • When she came and stood with an impossibly frail steadfastness, she was holding a tower of books against her stomach, from her navel to the beginnings of her breasts.†   (source)
  • After that, hounded by what happened in a Philippine jungle and the ghosts of a thousand men who didn't escape it, his steadfast disdain for cowardice turned to obsession.†   (source)
  • Edgar's mother laughed when Claude started in, having decided it was a form of backhanded compliment, since the more impressive the feat, the more steadfastly Claude held to his position.†   (source)
  • There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence.†   (source)
  • " And if that morsel could not satisfy our hunger to be comforted, Pastor Merrill led us further into Lamentations: " Tor the Lord will not cast off for ever, but, though he cause grief, he will have compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love; for he does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.'†   (source)
  • Samuel Adams was "zealous and keen in the cause," of "steadfast integrity," a "universal good character."†   (source)
  • It was perfect: there were two bedrooms, a fireplace with a long-tailed bird (stuffed) on the mantel, and a bathroom with an old claw-foot tub (one leg poked down through the floor, but the remaining three looked steadfast).†   (source)
  • However, Glaedr steadfastly ignored them, taking no more notice of them than a sleeping cave bear might of a few flies buzzing around his head.†   (source)
  • Eragon had not been close friends with Byrd, but he had known him to be a good man, honest and steadfast, and he remembered Byrd's wife, Felda, and their children with some fondness, for Garrow, Roran, and Eragon had eaten and slept in their house on several occasions.†   (source)
  • The humor arises entirely out of how steadfastly the participants adhere to the rule that no suggestion can be denied.†   (source)
  • But it was tactical brilliance, courage under fire, and steadfast leadership that saw him rise to the top.†   (source)
  • And if this hope was most egregiously naive and sentimental, which it no doubt was, I only wished for myself that I could bear whatever burdens might fall to me, that I might remain steadfast in my duty and uphold my responsibilities and not waver under any circumstance, and by whatever measure.†   (source)
  • Jeff remained steadfast in his refusal to allow Adam to jump from his car, and Richard, who was driving a Pontiac Grand Am, didn't have the right type of vehicle.†   (source)
  • Henry Knox, a novice artilleryman no longer, and the steadfast John Glover, could be counted on no matter how tough the going.†   (source)
  • Only then did Eragon again become aware of Saphira and Glaedr pressing against his consciousness, watching with steadfast attentiveness every thought that flickered through his mind.†   (source)
  • It steadfastly refused, as did the government of France, which had permitted the transfer of the painting to Israel from French soil, much to the dismay of the editorialists and the cultural elite.†   (source)
  • Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.†   (source)
  • The spokesman from Caer-Dineval was a courageous fighter who steadfastly refused to yield until the last breath had left his body.†   (source)
  • It is an adequacy deriving from what Mandelstam called "the steadfastness of speech articulation," from the resolution and independence which the entirely realized poem sponsors.†   (source)
  • I am of information that she has been beaten, berated and quite possibly violated in the way only a woman can be violated, while her captors continue to demand and await her confession-a piece of fiction she has quite properly, steadfastly, refused to provide them.†   (source)
  • The great man who was so contemptuous-in business-of weaklings who trimmed corners or fell by the wayside, because they couldn't match his strength of character and steadfastness of purpose!†   (source)
  • Though loyal to Washington and the administration, Adams was but nominally a Federalist, refusing steadfastly to be, or to be perceived as, a party man.†   (source)
  • She walked toward the defense table and pointed directly at Peter, who stared steadfastly down at his lap.†   (source)
  • "A son of America though a subject of Britain," Kennedy begins his speech, referring to the fact that Churchill's mother, née Jenny Jerome, was a U.S. citizen, "has been throughout his life a firm and steadfast friend of the American people and the American nation."†   (source)
  • Do you swear to uphold her honor, to remain steadfast and faithful to her in the years to come, and to treat her with the proper respect, dignity, and gentleness?†   (source)
  • Rendering unto Caesar that which was Caesar's, yes; but steadfastly seeking for you that bright horizon which you now enjoy ….†   (source)
  • Lestat thought the best color at all times for vampires was black, possibly the only aesthetic principle he steadfastly maintained, but he wasn't opposed to anything which smacked of style and excess.†   (source)
  • But mostly he looked at Tock and the Humbug, with whom he had shared so much—the perils, the dangers, the fears, and, best of all, the victory Never had anyone had two more steadfast companions.†   (source)
  • It seemed to be another obvious lie, but Patsy was steadfast to the point that even when I called in front of her, she acted as if everything was as she claimed.†   (source)
  • Hannah remains steadfast.†   (source)
  • She who had held her ground against war, plague, and abject loneliness, who had faced one dread uncertainty after another through the worst of times, steadfastly, never flinching by all appearances, looked upon "hazarding" a voyage over the North Atlantic with nothing less than horror.†   (source)
  • Yet because Alex had steadfastly assumed that she was infallible-because she'd been so sure that she could be a fair justice on this case-she'd gotten herself into a catch-22.†   (source)
  • I have begged to go topside to relieve myself of this condition, for fresh air and a firm horizon can do wonders to steady my stomach, but my husband steadfastly refuses me, saying that he doesn't want any "displays" on deck.†   (source)
  • But only a few years ago, during the summer of 1983, when I had visited Grandmother, she steadfastly maintained that she had not mistreated Mother in any way as a child.†   (source)
  • Washington had concluded his general orders for September 2 with a call for steadfastness and valor in the defense of New York: "Now is the time for every man to exert himself and make our country glorious or become contemptible."†   (source)
  • Do you swear to uphold his honor, to remain steadfast and faithful to him in the years to come, to bear his children while you may, and to be a caring mother for them?†   (source)
  • All the way home, Manda steadfastly defended Adam to their parents, maintaining that it was no big deal if Adam had some friends over for a little party—till she found that her closet had been rifled and some clothes were missing, her jewelry box had been pillaged, and her bed had been more than just slept in.†   (source)
  • I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with the awareness of--and glimpse into--the marvelous construction of the existing world together with the steadfast determination to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the reason that manifests itself in nature.†   (source)
  • He was to "attend" the advantages of such an experience and "attend constantly and steadfastly to the precepts and instructions of your father as you value the happiness of your mother and your own welfare."†   (source)
  • But I believe as well in a whole catalogue of Christian and classical virtues: in kindness and generosity, in steadfastness and courage, and much else.†   (source)
  • I swear I shall uphold her honor, remain steadfast and faithful to her in the years to come, and treat her with the proper respect, dignity, and gentleness.†   (source)
  • His face would force her to concentrate, even though her pulse was skittish and her heart was off a beat; she would show Peter that there was still someone steadfastly watching over him.†   (source)
  • And in notable contrast to much of fashionable society and the Court, where mistresses and infidelities were not only an accepted part of life, but often flaunted, the King remained steadfastly faithful to his very plain Queen, the German princess Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, with whom by now he had produced ten children.†   (source)
  • I swear I shall uphold his honor, remain steadfast and faithful to him in the years to come, bear his children while I may, and be a caring mother for them.†   (source)
  • In all that he wrote in correspondence in his first nine months in France, Adams never criticized Franklin; and inclined as he may have been at times to side with Arthur Lee, he steadfastly refused to do so.†   (source)
  • But like the thought that someday she would have to die, Oedipa had been steadfastly refusing to look at that possibility directly, or in any but the most accidental of lights.†   (source)
  • The lovely adagio from the Fourth Symphony floated down, merging like the serene, steadfast throb of a human pulse with my exalted mood.†   (source)
  • For John Quincy Adams was, as Samuel Eliot Morison has described him, "above all an Adams"; and his heartwarming devotion to his father and the latter's steadfast loyalty to his son regardless of political embarrassment offer asingle ray of warmth in that otherwise hard, cold existence.†   (source)
  • Every couple of verses or so the father glanced down, but the child's eyes were as darkly and steadfastly open at the end of the long song as at the beginning, though it was beginning to be an effort for him.†   (source)
  • CROMWELL Well, there are these men-you know-"upright," "steadfast," men who want themselves to be the constant factor in the situation; which, of course, they can't be.†   (source)
  • Once more it was the steadfast Fink, whose troglodyte manners I had cursed so often but whom I now blessed.†   (source)
  • The two related things she did recall about him—aside from his striking good looks—the two things she had not been able to forget about him, for some reason, were that he was a steadfast churchgoer and that he had always planned to enter the ministry.†   (source)
  • After order had been restored, and as we sat drinking (he bourbon, I that steadfast spirit of my nonage—Rheingold) and talking, largely about the gulf which separated this devil's spawn of an urban blight north of the Chesapeake and the South's Elysian meadows (in this realm my father could scarcely have been less prophetic, not having foreseen Atlanta), I was able more than once to reflect somberly on how my old man's imbroglio with Thomas McGuire had at least allowed me momentary…†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, Sophie and I living on the modest plantation in dignified seclusion, my reputation growing, the author himself being increasingly importuned by the media but steadfastly refusing all interviews.†   (source)
  • Whatever else may perish and disappear, what lies here is steadfast.†   (source)
  • What are a few mumbled words before God, before the steadfastness of a woman's nature?†   (source)
  • However, getting up stunned, I wanted to be steadfast.†   (source)
  • In the reeling of his mind, only one thing held out hope of steadfastness.†   (source)
  • I'm going down," he answered steadfastly.†   (source)
  • The flame crept tipsily up the wick, steadied, mellowed the steadfast brass below, glowed on each knot of the crisp golden braid of the bread on the napkin.†   (source)
  • She lifted her lovely face to him, pert and ugly as a boy's; it was inhabited by a true and steadfast decency, and his eyes were wet.†   (source)
  • They have but one law, to seize the power and keep it, And the steadfast can manipulate the greed and lust of others, The feeble is devoured by his own.†   (source)
  • Though they carried him from one police station to another, though they threatened him, persuaded him, bullied him, and stormed at him, he steadfastly refused to speak.†   (source)
  • He steadfastly would not touch the few beans that O-lan still held in her hand, and it comforted him vaguely to hear her crunching them, one at a time, a long time apart.†   (source)
  • That was, of course, a work of immense difficulty, and one which nothing but his pride and steadfastness could have overcome.†   (source)
  • Vainamoinen, old and steadfast, Rested in his mother's body For the space of thirty summers, And the sum of thirty winters, Ever on the placid waters, And upon the foaming billows.†   (source)
  • " "We'll try to accommodate you, sir," she said, and he, not missing her derision though all she looked was steadfast and unintimidated, stared, spoke to himself, and took up his hat.†   (source)
  • The Vicar had been praying steadfastly while they crossed the meadows, and he felt confident that St. Joseph would not turn a deaf ear.†   (source)
  • He saw the gentle face bent over him and, athwart the surge of fever, that steadfast smile took form again.†   (source)
  • Don't worry!" he said, turning away suddenly, wrenched bitterly, as he always was, by a sense of the child-like innocence and steadfastness that lay at the bottom of her life.†   (source)
  • " ' The life-voyager wishing to be taught by Proteus must "grasp him steadfastly and press him yet the more," and at length he will appear in his proper shape.†   (source)
  • It will be there, musing, quiet, steadfast, not fading and not particularly threatful, but of itself alone serene, of itself alone triumphant.†   (source)
  • Go and be steadfast though!†   (source)
  • This bright thing, the core of him, his Stranger, kept twisting its head about, unable to look at horror, until at length it gazed steadfastly, as if under a dreadful hypnosis, into the eyes of death and darkness.†   (source)
  • She came and stood before him, small, with that air steadfast, waiting, downlooking, coming up out of the darkness.†   (source)
  • He said he would send for me"; unshakable, sheeplike, having drawn upon that reserve of patient and steadfast fidelity upon which the Lucas Burches depend and trust, even though they do not intend to be present when the need for it arises.†   (source)
  • Things were again steadfast and plain.†   (source)
  • You see then, whither, prompted by duty and the law, I steadfastly drive.†   (source)
  • I made up my mind to be honest, and steadfast in accomplishing my task.†   (source)
  • That poor chap was doing his steadfast duty too.†   (source)
  • By which you mean to say: a thoroughly steadfast nature, secure in itself?†   (source)
  • He kept it in his hand and steadfastly proffered it.†   (source)
  • I clenched my hands and steadfastly looked into the glaring eyeballs.†   (source)
  • Two large dark-coloured eyes were regarding me steadfastly.†   (source)
  • The nettle of understanding will yet point steadfast and unwavering to the distant pole of truth.†   (source)
  • I advanced a step or two, looking steadfastly into his eyes.†   (source)
  • Hippolyte gazed steadfastly at him, but said nothing.†   (source)
  • The stars shone steadfast, bright, cold.†   (source)
  • VIVIE [steadfastly] Excuse me: I do mind.†   (source)
  • She stood there, looking steadfastly towards them, and listening to his departing steps.†   (source)
  • The old man's mind turned more and more to his monastery as his eyes turned to the steadfast snows.†   (source)
  • Or,—as I steadfastly believe,—what if he has no knowledge of this wealth?†   (source)
  • So he sat, with a steadfastly vacant gaze, pausing in his work.†   (source)
  • Eustacia regarded the youth steadfastly.†   (source)
  • The young girl, perceiving that there was something extraordinary, looked at him steadfastly.†   (source)
  • The mother still looked on steadfastly from the depths of her cavern.†   (source)
  • "You never," returns Tony with a most convincing steadfastness, "said a truer word in all your life.†   (source)
  • He loved his God and believed in Him steadfastly, though he was suddenly murmuring against Him.†   (source)
  • Noirtier kept his eyes steadfastly fixed on the same spot.†   (source)
  • I looked steadfastly at him, and perceived that his eyes looked dull and glazed.†   (source)
  • Defarge and his wife looked steadfastly at one another.†   (source)
  • He remained in the same attitude, looking steadfastly at him.†   (source)
  • I could not eat, I could not sit still, I could not continue steadfast to anything.†   (source)
  • During this conversation, Mrs Nickleby had regarded the man with a severe and steadfast look.†   (source)
  • Richelieu looked steadfastly at the young man.†   (source)
  • "You are not a shoemaker by trade?" said Mr. Lorry, looking steadfastly at him.†   (source)
  • Leave all else to time, truth, and steadfastness.†   (source)
  • 'My niece, Em'ly, is alive, sir!' he said, steadfastly.†   (source)
  • The Doctor looked on her, henceforth, as steadfastly as she on him.†   (source)
  • Every day made more steadfast his impression of the great mystery that was like a twining shadow round these women, yet in the same time many little ideas shifted and many new characteristics became manifest.†   (source)
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