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  • The Hegemony did not wait eleven local years to return-the FORCE torchships were in orbit before five years had elapsed.†   (source)
  • With more than half a year having elapsed since anyone had heard from the children, Geyer wrote, "it did not look like a very encouraging task to undertake, and it was the general belief of all interested, that the children would never be found.†   (source)
  • Snow is clean, stark, severe, warm (as an insulating blanket, paradoxically), inhospitable, inviting, playful, suffocating, filthy (after enough time has elapsed).†   (source)
  • Just over eight minutes had elapsed.†   (source)
  • Indeed, one could hardly believe two whole hours had elapsed when Miss Kenton looked up at the clock on the mantelshelf and said she would have to be returning home.†   (source)
  • Then, after a suitable period of recovery had elapsed, someone called out, "Lanre!†   (source)
  • About four hundred years have elapsed since St. Augustine, and now school starts.†   (source)
  • Mari releases a little sigh and allows a few seconds to elapse.†   (source)
  • When several minutes elapsed without incident, Eragon pushed his mind out over the surrounding landscape.†   (source)
  • Between the births of Beverly and Nancy, three more years elapsed, and these were the years of the Sunday picnics and of summer excursions to Colorado, the years when she really ran her own home and was the happy center of it.†   (source)
  • Several days had elapsed.†   (source)
  • It was as if the family had been beamed magically from one world to another; they had little feeling for the miles traveled, the continents or oceans crossed, or the time elapsed.†   (source)
  • Hardly a full day had elapsed since Holly had come crawling in delirium to the foot of Watership Down.†   (source)
  • After over an hour of the visiting time had elapsed, I was beside myself.†   (source)
  • The next morning, Dr. Pipi finally operated, but by then at least three days had elapsed since Prudence had arrived at the hospital, and her abdomen was severely infected.†   (source)
  • Almost a decade had elapsed since he first introduced the legislation and he was finally able to bring it to a vote.†   (source)
  • Fully eight days had elapsed after the Saipan invasion before the first photo reached the U.S. But at Iwo Jima, the process was accelerated, and streamlined.†   (source)
  • 29 PECKEM There was no word about Orr the next day, and Sergeant Whitcomb, with commendable dispatch and considerable hope, dropped a reminder in his tickler file to send a form letter over Colonel Cathcart's signature to Orr's next of kin when nine more days had elapsed.†   (source)
  • Hear it, somehow, until whole seconds elapse between beats.†   (source)
  • Two years had elapsed since she discovered he was unfaithful, and things had grown worse.†   (source)
  • There were two possibilities here, depending on how much time had elapsed since he'd fallen.†   (source)
  • Fifteen minutes elapsed and there was still no sign of her.†   (source)
  • The elapsed time, however, was an additional three hours.†   (source)
  • I had my own eye on the door to the Banquet Hall, believing it the closest to the Parlor and therefore, given that little time had elapsed, the most likely explanation for Mrs. Fauxmanteur's quick disappearance.†   (source)
  • When the time had elapsed to his satisfaction, he called for vinegar and applied it to the engorged creatures so that they twitched all the harder, their jaws relaxing as they sought to escape the irritant.†   (source)
  • That score is calculated from various factors: strategic approach, objectives achieved, time elapsed, and such.†   (source)
  • He wondered why she should scream so long after the fact-and then he realized that the time elapsed since the touch of the first lever was not a full minute.†   (source)
  • The residue of that long, sanctioned nightmare was still with me, and I wanted to tell these freshmen truthfully that no matter how much time had elapsed since that first day at the Institute, the one truth the system had taught me was this: A part of me would always be a plebe.†   (source)
  • We have figured out fundamental laws of physics--laws that govern how stars shine and light travels, laws that dictate how time elapses and space expands, laws that allow us to peer back to the briefest moment after the universe began.†   (source)
  • Eleven months elapsed before she finished it.†   (source)
  • "The President is so accessible that any villain can feign business, and, while talking with him, draw a razor and cut his throat," Hay worries aloud, "and some minutes might elapse after the murderer's escape before we could discover what had been done."†   (source)
  • When the professors emerged from the chairman's office, he repeated everything he had done the time before, starting with knocking on the door and introducing himself, since Dr. Bassiouni had, in the few minutes that had elapsed, completely forgotten about him.†   (source)
  • Five minutes elapsed before it finally illuminated.†   (source)
  • In the fraction of a second that had elapsed, the fireball should already have formed and should be filling the sky with its solar flame.†   (source)
  • Hardly a second or two had elapsed between his last words and his seizing of the manual, in which he was now totally engrossed.†   (source)
  • In actual time, not over an hour elapsed before I had the spare tire on.†   (source)
  • As the minutes continued their parade, I came near to deciding that I had been mistaken, that the margin of caution had elapsed, that nothing would occur.†   (source)
  • …the weakness spreading all through his body, and the line between thinking of killing and killing, and about how he hadn't had his supper and how his daughter had baggy eyes and dust-dry hair, might very well be pregnant--but in reality only a split second elapsed between the moment he closed his fingers on the gun and the moment he turned, caught the stupid, weakling smile, the crossed arms, the body tilted far off balance, as if standing in shoes firmly nailed to the floor.†   (source)
  • Two months had now elapsed since the day when, instead of going home from Yuriatin, he spent the night at Larisa Feo-dorovna's and told his family that he had been kept on business and had stayed at Samdeviatov's inn.†   (source)
  • He gave up, as he had only a vague notion of elapsed time.†   (source)
  • Three months have elapsed since the fire.
  • It was one of those conversations that require some time to elapse between exchanges.†   (source)
  • Nearly half of the hour allotted by Voldemort for his surrender had elapsed.†   (source)
  • When four days had elapsed, Papa walked a long length of the Amper River.†   (source)
  • Several minutes elapsed before Roran could bring himself to stir.†   (source)
  • Forty-seven seconds had elapsed; it was time to call.†   (source)
  • Three more seconds elapsed and the phone rang; he picked it up.†   (source)
  • Several tense moments elapsed before Ms.†   (source)
  • He sat alone for what seemed like an hour, though only half that time had elapsed.†   (source)
  • Five critical minutes would elapse before the FBI managed to find the car.†   (source)
  • It reached the point where Eragon began to measure the elapsed time by the sun's progress.†   (source)
  • He said he'd meet us there in exactly twenty-five minutes and twelve have already elapsed.'†   (source)
  • When the time elapsed reached two minutes, the monitor started flashing.†   (source)
  • Long seconds elapsed while Mum sat and stared at the glass of water.†   (source)
  • Twenty long wet seconds elapsed before a voice answered.†   (source)
  • Several minutes elapsed; no one came out.†   (source)
  • Fifteen precious minutes elapsed before Carter had an answer.†   (source)
  • Had it simply been lost in the sixteen years that had elapsed since it had been written, or had it been taken by whoever had searched the room?†   (source)
  • I know that no more than ten or twelve seconds elapsed, but it seemed much longer, and finally she nodded slightly.†   (source)
  • In Darwin's time, it was widely believed that about 6,000 years had elapsed since God created the earth.†   (source)
  • Wanting to impress Cho seemed to belong to a past that was no longer quite connected with him; so much of what he had wanted before Sinus',' death felt that «°av these days… the week that had elapsed since he had last seen Sirius seemed to have lasted much, much longer; it stretched across two universes, the one with Sirius in it, and the one without.†   (source)
  • Soon the deed is done and he lies spent beside her, at which point the narrator points out that "precisely ninety seconds" have elapsed since he walked from her to look into the bedroom.†   (source)
  • This was a signal that his three minutes as Ultraman had nearly elapsed and that his power was almost depleted.†   (source)
  • When Hilde thought auitable interval had elapsed, she said casually, "Have you heard from Anne and Ole lately?"†   (source)
  • His point was that even quite small changes could cause huge geological upheavals, considering the aeons of time that have elapsed.†   (source)
  • Every now and then, she'd catch him studying her as he passed her one of the dishes, and though in many ways a lifetime had elapsed in the years they had been apart, she had the uncanny feeling that they'd never lost contact at all.†   (source)
  • The sight was so incongruous, several moments elapsed before Eragon realized that the dwarf was Orik.†   (source)
  • She remembered that he'd said something about spending the holidays overseas, but as each day elapsed without word from him, she vacillated between the certainty that he still loved her and the hopelessness of their situation.†   (source)
  • Perry, who was chewing gum, stopped chewing; he lowered his eyes, a minute elapsed, then slowly his jaws began to move again.†   (source)
  • A long moment elapsed.†   (source)
  • Suddenly she longed for a sight of the Eastern Shore with its coves and creeks, thought of the years that had elapsed since she first ran away from there.†   (source)
  • The editor gave her a kind reception (all Czechs still wore the halo of their misfortune, and the good Swiss were touched); he offered her a seat, looked through the prints, praised them, and explained that because a certain time had elapsed since the events, they hadn't the slightest chance ( not that they aren't very beautiful!†   (source)
  • Two years had elapsed since her weekend with Dawson Cole; two long years since the day Morgan Tanner had called to tell her that he'd passed away.†   (source)
  • They had taken his watch, his watch with the day and date in impossible small print, so he had no idea of either the present time or the time that had elapsed since he had been taken from Walter Reed Hospital.†   (source)
  • Over a hundred years have elapsed since Tamerlein was last used in battle, and it might need some slight refurbishing.†   (source)
  • If eight years had elapsed, he might not remember the promise he made to her so long ago in the Hall of the Soothsayer.†   (source)
  • Max read the readout on the bright white screen: SARAH AMANKWE: LEVEL ONE, SCENARIO OA02 TIME ELAPSED: 00:0014:57.†   (source)
  • A half hour elapsed before she landed.†   (source)
  • Several minutes elapsed, and still the tree did not acknowledge them, but Eragon refused to abandon their attempt.†   (source)
  • Eragon fidgeted as the minutes elapsed.†   (source)
  • Andrews kept his. ln the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months.†   (source)
  • Then she had begun to wonder why Galbatorix had not come to torture her during the week, and it occurred to her that if a week had elapsed, then the Varden and the elves would have attacked Uru'baen.†   (source)
  • Most of the horses were riderless; therefore, it did not occur to her until another half hour had elapsed and she could make out the faces of the men in the saddles that the group might be Roran's returning from their raid.†   (source)
  • A full minute elapsed, and Dewey exulted in Smith's silence, for an innocent man would ask who was this witness, and who were these Clutters, and why did they think he'd murdered them-would, at any rate, say something.†   (source)
  • Several tense minutes elapsed before the unnatural blazes were removed and it became clear that the conflagrations would not spread to the rest of the ship.†   (source)
  • Max had not heard from Ronin since Halloween; he had assumed enough time had elapsed that Cooper's suspicions had been unreported or dismissed.†   (source)
  • Several minutes elapsed, long enough for Natalie to wonder whether Jalal Nasser had decided to abort the meeting.†   (source)
  • The motive being a psychopathic hatred, or possibly a combination of hatred and thievery, and he believed that the commission of the murders had been a leisurely labor, with perhaps two or more hours elapsing between the entrance of the killers and their exit.†   (source)
  • Fifteen minutes elapsed before Oromis finished limning the tufts of needles on a gnarled juniper tree, laid aside his ink, cleaned his sable brush with water from a clay pot, and then addressed Eragon, saying, "Why have you come so early?"†   (source)
  • After Perry's parole, four months elapsed, months of rattling around in a fifth-hand, hundred-dollar Ford, rolling from Reno to Las Vegas, from Bellingham, Washington, to Buhl, Idaho, and it was in Buhl, where he had found temporary work as a truck driver, that Dick's letter reached him: "Friend P., Came out in August, and after you left I met Someone, you do not know him, but he put me on to something we could bring off beautiful.†   (source)
  • He forgot how much time had elapsed.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, the seven have elapsed, that I may now speak to thank my benefactors and answer their questions.†   (source)
  • I could tell that, even in the brief moment that elapsed before I lost my senses.†   (source)
  • She allowed a convincingly sufficient time to elapse.†   (source)
  • Only about ten minutes elapsed between his speaking to Cronshaw and the finding of the body.†   (source)
  • Hardly ten minutes had elapsed before the door opened softly, and someone entered the room.†   (source)
  • ' "We'd better get out of here," said Pearson, after a few minutes had elapsed.†   (source)
  • The principle had been discovered; but many, many years were to elapse before that principle was usefully applied.†   (source)
  • Thus I proceeded as my eyes of a man already dead registered the elapsing of that day, which was perhaps the last, and the diffusion of the night.†   (source)
  • What is meant is that when enough time has elapsed the new is looted for new "twists," which are then watered down and served up as kitsch.†   (source)
  • The progress of aviation is rapid, but it had seemed likely to me that much more time would elapse before an average machine could make such a crossing of the mountains.†   (source)
  • During the seven decades that have elapsed since that distracted wife, mother, and blindly impassioned mistress threw herself beneath the wheels of the train—thus terminating, with a gesture symbolic of what already had happened to her soul, her tragedy of disorientation—a tumultuous and unremitting dithyramb of romances, news reports, and unrecorded cries of anguish has been going up to the honor of the bull-demon of the labyrinth: the wrathful, destructive, maddening aspect of the…†   (source)
  • Some time had elapsed, but it seemed to him that if he turned his head he would still see the two of them, himself and the man, kneeling beside the bed, or anyway, in the rug the indentations of the twin pairs of knees without tangible substance.†   (source)
  • I did not know how much time elapsed as I stood there, numb, astonished; but, suddenly, the vast ranks of the Communist party began to move.†   (source)
  • It (the talking, the telling) seemed (to him, to Quentin) to partake of that logic— and reason-flouting quality of a dream which the sleeper knows must have occurred, stillborn and complete, in a second, yet the very quality upon which it must depend to move the dreamer (verisimilitude) to credulity—horror or pleasure or amazement—depends as completely upon a formal recognition of and acceptance of elapsed and yet-elapsing time as music or a printed tale.†   (source)
  • It will taste sweet either way. n4The understanding of the final—and critical—implications of the world-redemptive words and symbols of the tradition of Christendom has been so disarranged, during the tumultuous centuries that have elapsed since St. Augustine's declaration of the holy war of the Civitas Dei against the Civitas Diaboli, that the modern thinker wishing to know the meaning of a world religion (i. e., of a doctrine of universal love) must turn his mind to the other great…†   (source)
  • A quarter of a century was to elapse between the time when I saw my father sitting with the strange woman and the time when I was to see him again, standing alone upon the red clay of a Mississippi plantation, a sharecropper, clad in ragged overalls, holding a muddy hoe in his gnarled, veined hands—a quarter of a century during which my mind and consciousness had become so greatly and violently altered that when I tried to talk to him I realized that, though ties of blood made us kin,…†   (source)
  • Judith and Ellen and Sutpen saw him for the first time—Judith, the man whom she was to see for an elapsed time of twelve days, yet to remember so that four years later (he never wrote her during that time.†   (source)
  • It (the talking, the telling) seemed (to him, to Quentin) to partake of that logic— and reason-flouting quality of a dream which the sleeper knows must have occurred, stillborn and complete, in a second, yet the very quality upon which it must depend to move the dreamer (verisimilitude) to credulity—horror or pleasure or amazement—depends as completely upon a formal recognition of and acceptance of elapsed and yet-elapsing time as music or a printed tale.†   (source)
  • …when they must have realised, believed at last that they were no longer traveling, moving, going somewhere—not the being still at last and in a fashion settled, because they had done that before on the road; he remembered how one time the gradual difference in comfort between the presence and absence of shoes and warm clothing occurred in one place: a cowshed where the sister's baby was born and, as he told Grandfather, for all he could remember, locate in elapsed time, conceived too.†   (source)
  • …foot was out of the stirrup he not only set out to try to restore his plantation to what it used to be, like maybe he was hoping to fool the Creditor by illusion and obfuscation by concealing behind the illusion that time and change had not elapsed and occurred the fact that he was now almost sixty years old until he could get himself a new batch of children to bulwark him, but chose for this purpose the last woman on earth he might have hoped to prevail on, this Aunt R—all right all…†   (source)
  • She postulated the elapsed years during which no honeymoon nor any change had taken place, out of which the (now) five faces looked with a sort of lifeless and perennial bloom like painted portraits hung in a vacuum, each taken at its forewarned peak and smoothed of all thought and experience, the originals of which had lived and died so long ago that their joys and griefs must now be forgotten even by the very boards on which they had strutted and postured and laughed and wept.†   (source)
  • I could have reminded them of these wasted years, these years which would now leave me behind with my schedule not only the amount of elapsed time which their number represented, but that compensatory amount of time represented by their number which I should now have to spend to advance myself once more to the point I had reached and lost.†   (source)
  • A fortnight elapsed during which she was seen neither at the Opera nor outside.†   (source)
  • A few moments elapsed; then, with an effort, she brought herself to.†   (source)
  • Only a few seconds elapsed before he was on his feet again.†   (source)
  • No long time elapsed before the 'unction was effected.†   (source)
  • Days would elapse before he could come back.†   (source)
  • When she opened her eyes she remembered everything, as if only a moment had elapsed.†   (source)
  • IX I waited and waited, and the days, as they elapsed, took something from my consternation.†   (source)
  • The sun shone upon him, but some time elapsed before he felt its warmth.†   (source)
  • But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed.†   (source)
  • It seemed as if the whole time had nearly elapsed when the door was opened again, and Jude appeared.†   (source)
  • But even in the minute that had elapsed the number of the rats had vastly increased.†   (source)
  • Oh, no. A whole year must elapse before that could possibly happen—or so Jephson had said.†   (source)
  • Not more than a minute had elapsed after her withdrawal when Tess woke, and then Clare.†   (source)
  • In addition another year assuredly must elapse before a decision could be reached.†   (source)
  • No dust has settled on that robe; no time has elapsed since that divinity was revealed.†   (source)
  • Some time elapsed before Newman followed his friends into the drawing-room.†   (source)
  • The rust on the weapon showed the time that had elapsed since this death-blow had been given.†   (source)
  • A considerable time elapsed, and no request for his presence was brought.†   (source)
  • No one spoke during the twenty minutes which elapsed before they reached their destination.†   (source)
  • Several days elapsed, and they neither saw nor heard of Cucumetto.†   (source)
  • Long years have since elapsed, and my memory is feeble through much suffering.†   (source)
  • The sentence had passed; and it appeared to me that a very long interval of time had since elapsed.†   (source)
  • Some minutes elapsed before she came out of this thoughtfulness, and resumed her hard composure.†   (source)
  • It seemed to him that more than half an hour had elapsed.†   (source)
  • A space of a minute or two has elapsed before he comes up with her.†   (source)
  • Three months elapsed, and there was no prospect of release or of a purchaser.†   (source)
  • Now four days had elapsed, and Valentine still lived.†   (source)
  • Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends.†   (source)
  • Another night elapsed, another morning came; but no wife.†   (source)
  • It might be that a long interval would elapse ere the White Whale was seen.†   (source)
  • The time allotted to a lesson having fully elapsed, there was a general putting on of bonnets.†   (source)
  • Incommunicative as he was, some time elapsed before I had an opportunity of gauging his mind.†   (source)
  • An interval of some duration elapsed, in which there was no bid for Mrs General.†   (source)
  • A full month elapsed, during which Marius went every day to the Luxembourg.†   (source)
  • Many minutes elapsed before any circumstance occurred tending to throw light upon the mystery.†   (source)
  • During the five or six minutes that elapsed before the youth and Major reappeared.†   (source)
  • Some minutes of silence elapsed, which were interrupted by the arrival of M. de Bellegarde.†   (source)
  • Several weeks elapsed before I saw the least change in her.†   (source)
  • At first he appeared to make no response to these last words; he let a long time elapse.†   (source)
  • When, however, suitable time had elapsed, the oldest of the party spoke.†   (source)
  • Many years have already elapsed since they ceased to exist as a party.†   (source)
  • I instantly wrote to Geneva; nearly two months have elapsed since the departure of my letter.†   (source)
  • An hour of terror elapsed, for every spot they passed showed that they were on the road back.†   (source)
  • More than ten days elapsed before I had again any conversation with her.†   (source)
  • A short space elapsed, and up into this noiselessness came Ahab alone from his cabin.†   (source)
  • An hour thus elapsed when (could it be possible?†   (source)
  • In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their appearance.†   (source)
  • Some time elapsed before, with all my efforts, I could comprehend my scholars and their nature.†   (source)
  • Several minutes elapsed thus, and the light retreated.†   (source)
  • Scarcely had a few seconds elapsed, ere he saw everything as distinctly as by daylight.†   (source)
  • Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on his knees on the wall.†   (source)
  • A considerable interval elapsed before it again rose.†   (source)
  • Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce."†   (source)
  • Ten or twelve weeks had elapsed since that night.†   (source)
  • Johnson, as Johnson, was unrecognizable; and not only that, for his features, as human features at all, were unrecognizable, so discoloured and swollen had they become in the few minutes which had elapsed between the beginning of the beating and the dragging forward of the body.†   (source)
  • It was generally considered "as fine as a Cabanel," and, though twenty years had elapsed since its execution, was still "a perfect likeness."†   (source)
  • Almost a month having elapsed since the liniment cake episode, it was high time for her to get into fresh trouble of some sort, little mistakes, such as absentmindedly emptying a pan of skim milk into a basket of yarn balls in the pantry instead of into the pigs' bucket, and walking clean over the edge of the log bridge into the brook while wrapped in imaginative reverie, not really being worth counting.†   (source)
  • He thought all this and more in the moment that elapsed between the stranger's remark and Injun Joe's next—which was— "Because the bush is in your way.†   (source)
  • Many days elapsed before the people had ceased to look out, quaking, for the return of the white men with long beards and in rags, whose exact relation to their own white man they could never understand.†   (source)
  • The phenomenon is possible because we lack an internal organ for time, because, that is, if left on our own without external clues, we are totally incapable of even approximate reliability when estimating elapsed time.†   (source)
  • In the case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days.†   (source)
  • An hour elapsed, and Francoise had not returned; my mother, supposing that she had gone back to bed, grew vexed, and told me to go myself to the bookcase and fetch the volume.†   (source)
  • Only a few days had elapsed since the hour of his encounter with Tull, yet they had been forgotten and now seemed far off, and the interval one that now appeared large and profound with incalculable change in his feelings.†   (source)
  • Barely another thirty seconds had elapsed between the moment when Lord Hastings slipped the mysterious "something" into Sir Andrew's hand, and the one when she, in her turn, reached the deserted boudoir.†   (source)
  • Another put in a rider that the thirst then generated was such that even the time which had elapsed had not completely allayed it.†   (source)
  • Only that meant, as he later reasoned, that a whole day must elapse before anything could be done for Roberta, and that, in her eyes, as well as his own, would be leaving her open to the danger that any delay at all involved.†   (source)
  • So little a time had elapsed, that when I got to the top of the first steepness, and could see some part of the open mountain, the murderer was still moving away at no great distance.†   (source)
  • Probably not a quarter of an hour had elapsed when Duane heard the clear reports of a Winchester rifle, the clatter of rapid hoof-beats, and yells unmistakably the kind to mean danger for a man like Stevens.†   (source)
  • Scarcely three months had elapsed since he had parted from her on the threshold of the Brys' conservatory; but a subtle change had passed over the quality of her beauty.†   (source)
  • In the interval which elapsed before the calves were sold there was, of course, little milking to be done, but as soon as the calf had been taken away the milkmaids would have to set to work as usual.†   (source)
  • If he glued it together the next morning months might elapse before his wife noticed what had happened, and meanwhile he might after all be able to match the dish at Shadd's Falls or Bettsbridge.†   (source)
  • A descendant of his exercised it at the accession of James I. Before this one's son chose to use the privilege, near a quarter of a century had elapsed, and the 'privilege of the Kents' had faded out of most people's memories; so, when the Kent of that day appeared before Charles I. and his court and sat down in the sovereign's presence to assert and perpetuate the right of his house, there was a fine stir indeed!†   (source)
  • Utter annihilation of the six days which must elapse before he could see her again as he had promised would have been his intensest wish if he had had only the week to live.†   (source)
  • PART IV I. A WEEK had elapsed since the rendezvous of our two friends on the green bench in the park, when, one fine morning at about half-past ten o'clock, Varvara Ardalionovna, otherwise Mrs. Ptitsin, who had been out to visit a friend, returned home in a state of considerable mental depression.†   (source)
  • Should the throes of change take me in the act of writing it, Hyde will tear it in pieces; but if some time shall have elapsed after I have laid it by, his wonderful selfishness and Circumscription to the moment will probably save it once again from the action of his ape-like spite.†   (source)
  • Emerson, he will call, I shall call; you or your son will return our calls before ten days have elapsed.†   (source)
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