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a notable absence of luxury, comfort, or decoration
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of a person: stern in manner; or practicing great self-denial
or:
of a person: stern in manner; or practicing great self-denial
- Sir, his wife, some two months since, fled from his house: her pretence is a pilgrimage to Saint Jaques-le-Grand: which holy undertaking with most austere sanctimony she accomplished; and, there residing, the tenderness of her nature became as a prey to her grief; in fine, made a groan of her last breath; and now she sings in heaven.4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — The Florentine camp (15% in)
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