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She had even condescended to advise him tomarry as soon as he could, provided he chose with discretion; and hadonce paid him a visit in his humble parsonage, where she had perfectlyapproved all the alterations he had been making, and had even vouchsafedto suggest some herself--some shelves in the closet up stairs.<>
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May I askwhether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of themoment, or are the result of previous study?""They arise chiefly from what is passing at the time, and though Isometimes amuse myself with suggesting and arranging such little elegantcompliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions, I always wish togive them as unstudied an air as possible.<>
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She was not the better pleased with hisgallantry from the idea it suggested of something more.<>
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It appeared to her merely the suggestion of Caroline'sinterested wishes, and she could not for a moment suppose that thosewishes, however openly or artfully spoken, could influence a young manso totally independent of everyone.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) She had once or twice suggested to Elizabeth the possibility of hisbeing partial to her, but Elizabeth always laughed at the idea; and Mrs.<>
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Nothing had ever suggested it before, but they felt thatthere was no other way of accounting for such attentions from such aquarter than by supposing a partiality for their niece.<>
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The sanguine hope ofgood, however, which the benevolence of her heart suggested had not yetdeserted her; she still expected that it would all end well, and thatevery morning would bring some letter, either from Lydia or her father,to explain their proceedings, and, perhaps, announce their marriage.<>
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Renderedspiritless by the ill-success of all their endeavours, he had yieldedto his brother-in-law's entreaty that he would return to his family, andleave it to him to do whatever occasion might suggest to be advisablefor continuing their pursuit.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Put 'em under the pump,' suggested a hot-pieman.<>
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The only question is,whether the gentleman, being on the ground, must not be considered, asa matter of form, to be the individual who insulted our friend, DoctorSlammer, yesterday evening, whether he is really that individualor not;' and having delivered this suggestion, with a very sage andmysterious air, the man with the camp-stool took a large pinch ofsnuff, and looked profoundly round, with the air of an authority in suchmatters.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Sorry to have placed you in this disagreeable situation,' saidLieutenant Tappleton, addressing Mr. Pickwick; 'allow me to suggest,that the best way of avoiding a recurrence of such scenes in future willbe to be more select in the choice of your companions.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Perhaps one of the gentlemen would like to ride, sir?' suggested thewaiter, looking towards Mr. Winkle; 'very good saddle-horses, sir--anyof Mr. Wardle's men coming to Rochester, bring 'em back, Sir.<>
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Mr. Winklemodestly repeated his suggestion.<>
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In vain did the eager Luffey, and the enthusiasticStruggles, do all that skill and experience could suggest, to regain theground Dingley Dell had lost in the contest--it was of no avail; and inan early period of the winning game Dingley Dell gave in, and allowedthe superior prowess of All-Muggleton.<>
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Sir,' said the little man, rising, 'I wish to address what I have tosay to you and not to our worthy chairman, because our worthy chairmanis in some measure--I may say in a great degree--the subject of what Ihave to say, or I may say to--to--' 'State,' suggested Mr. Jingle.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Yes, to state,' said the little man, 'I thank my honourable friend, ifhe will allow me to call him so (four hears and one certainly fromMr. Jingle), for the suggestion.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Mr. Pickwick, with his hands in his pockets and his hat cockedcompletely over his left eye, was leaning against the dresser, shakinghis head from side to side, and producing a constant succession of theblandest and most benevolent smiles without being moved thereunto byany discernible cause or pretence whatsoever; old Mr. Wardle, witha highly-inflamed countenance, was grasping the hand of a strangegentleman muttering protestations of eternal friendship; Mr. Winkle,supporting himself by the eight-day clock, was feebly invokingdestruction upon the head of any member of the family who should suggestthe propriety of his retiring for the night; and Mr. Snodgrass had sunkinto a chair, with an expression of the most abject and hopeless miserythat the human mind can imagine, portrayed in every lineament of hisexpressive face.<>
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Can I sayanything for you?My dear fellow,' replied the unsuspicious Mr. Tupman, ferventlygrasping his 'friend's' hand--'carry my best love--say how hard I findit to dissemble--say anything that's kind: but add how sensible I amof the necessity of the suggestion she made to me, through you, thismorning.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Ah, Pickwick--really Mr. Pickwick, my dear Sir, excuse me--I shall behappy to receive any private suggestions of yours, as AMICUS CURIAE, butyou must see the impropriety of your interfering with my conduct in thiscase, with such an AD CAPTANDUM argument as the offer of half a guinea.<>
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Ay, ay,' said the little man, 'very good, very good, indeed; but youshould have suggested it to me.<>
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But suppose there are two mobs?' suggested Mr. Snodgrass.<>
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The word polticsurprises by himself--' And down went Mr. Pickwick's remark, in CountSmorltork's tablets, with such variations and additions as the count'sexuberant fancy suggested, or his imperfect knowledge of the languageoccasioned.<>
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The gamekeeperhaving been coaxed and feed, and having, moreover, eased his mind by'punching' the head of the inventive youth who had first suggested theuse of the machine, Mr. Pickwick was placed in it, and off the partyset; Wardle and the long gamekeeper leading the way, and Mr. Pickwick inthe barrow, propelled by Sam, bringing up the rear.<>
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"And if, Sir," said the tenant, callingafter him, "if you WOULD have the goodness to suggest to the otherladies and gentlemen who are now engaged in haunting old empty houses,that they might be much more comfortable elsewhere, you will confer avery great benefit on society.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'I'm wery much obliged to you, old gen'l'm'n,' replied Sam, 'forconsulting my conwenience, and I'm still more obliged to the othergen'l'm'n, who looks as if he'd just escaped from a giant's carrywan,for his wery 'andsome suggestion; but I should prefer your givin' me aanswer to my question, if it's all the same to you.<>
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"Circumwented, p'raps,' suggested Mr. Weller.<>
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Here Mr. Pickwick, who had been writhing in silence for some time, gavea violent start, as if some vague idea of assaulting Serjeant Buzfuz, inthe august presence of justice and law, suggested itself to his mind.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'Well,' said that gentleman, 'if you leave me to suggest ourdestination, I say Bath.<>
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But neither mode of relief suggested itself to PrinceBladud; so he solicited a private audience, and told his father.<>
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The suggestion being loudly approved of, Mr. Whiffers explained.<>
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He even went so far as to essay sundryineffectual hints regarding the expediency of stretching himself on thegravel for that night; but finding Mr. Pickwick obstinately deaf to anysuch suggestions, finally withdrew.<>
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Going out, perhaps?' suggested Mr. Mivins.<>
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Will you take three bob?And a bender,' suggested the clerical gentleman.<>
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Havinga decided objection to his master's being there at all, Mr. Wellerappeared to consider it a high moral duty not to appear too much pleasedwith anything that was done, said, suggested, or proposed.<>
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Sam Weller received both of these suggestions with unexpected contempt,and again propounded his question.<>
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The obvious suggestion was,that the mottled-faced gentleman, being anxious for a song, should singit himself; but this the mottled-faced gentleman sturdily, and somewhatoffensively, declined to do.<>
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Areg'lar prodigy son!Prodigal--prodigal son, Sir,' suggested Mr. Pell, mildly.<>
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Weller, being wholly unable to suppressher feelings, sobbed aloud, and stated her conviction that the red-nosedman was a saint; whereupon Mr. Weller, senior, ventured to suggest, inan undertone, that he must be the representative of the united parishesof St.<>
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Cluppins's sister,' suggested Mrs.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) It was with feelings of no small astonishment, when the carriage drew upbefore the door with the red lamp, and the very legible inscription of'Sawyer, late Nockemorf,' that Mr. Pickwick saw, on popping his head outof the coach window, the boy in the gray livery very busily employedin putting up the shutters--the which, being an unusual and anunbusinesslike proceeding at that hour of the morning, at once suggestedto his mind two inferences: the one, that some good friend and patientof Mr. Bob Sawyer's was dead; the other, that Mr. Bob Sawyer himself wasbankrupt.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'And are both deeply imbued with those blue principles, which, so longas I live, I have pledged myself to the people of these kingdoms tosupport and to maintain?' suggested Pott.<>
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Omnibuses?' suggested Sam.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The fat boy almost laughed again when he heard this suggestion.<>
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Why, in the name of all that's--Inflammable,' mildly suggested Mr. Pickwick, who thought somethingworse was coming.<>
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What should you say to a drop o' beer, gen'l'm'n?' suggested themottled-faced man.<>
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" Within what time shall we say?A fortnight?' suggested Wilkins Flasher, Esquire.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Mr. Pickwick himself continued to reside in his new house, employing hisleisure hours in arranging the memoranda which he afterwards presentedto the secretary of the once famous club, or in hearing Sam Weller readaloud, with such remarks as suggested themselves to his mind, whichnever failed to afford Mr. Pickwick great amusement.<>
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"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "Sort of red danger signals," suggested the other.<>
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That halo should have enclosed an oval face of themildly angelic sort; but the face was crabbed and elderly with apowerful jowl and a short nose that somehow suggested the broken nose ofa pugilist.<>
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Sir Arthurcould only throw out suggestions about a Bolshevist conspiracy whichsounded a little thin.<>
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Butif Sir Matthew suggested a very cocksure sort of cock – sparrow, SirArthur might more truly have been compared to a crane or stork; as heleaned forward, prodding the poet with questions, his long nose mighthave been a long beak.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) It was upon this suggestion of a secret that Sir Arthur seized indeveloping his line of accusation.<>
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"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "My dear," said the lady, "how absurd you are--Sir Leopold!" Then, aftera pause, she added: "If anybody suggested his secretary now-- that manwith the whiskers; I've always said, ever since he got the place Philipought to have had----"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "Nothing doing," said Philip languidly, making his sole contribution tothe conversation.<>
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When he heard of Devine's destination he claimed it as his own,though his tone suggested rather an abstract relish for offering peoplea ride.<>
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"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "Perhaps," suggested Mrs.<>
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Doubtless agreat deal can be done with hypnotism and suggestion, to say nothing ofsleight-of-hand.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "Perhaps," said Father Brown with a smile, "you would like to speakwithout words, as the Count suggests.<>
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He might have been a manwho had begun to take drugs; but even on that assumption there wassomething that suggested that he had a reason for doing it; that thedrug was not the cause of the tragedy, but the tragedy the cause of thedrug.<>
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But he did not seem to think much of the suggestion of suicide.<>
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Does that suggestanything else to you?"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "It suggests a good deal," replied Smith; "but I expect it will suggesta good deal more to you.<>
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"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "Docs it suggest, for instance," observed Father Brown, "the onlyconditions in which a vigorous and rather violent gentleman might besmiling pleasantly when his throat was cut?"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) The next moment they had passed through a dark passage or two at theback of the house, and came into the back room of the shop, dimly lit byfiltered light from beyond and a dingy and cracked looking-glass.<>
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"How strange!"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) VI THE WORST CRIME IN THE WORLDFATHER BROWN was wandering through a picture gallery with an expressionthat suggested that he had not come there to look at the pictures.<>
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I suggested that, if he was so kind, we might gotogether; and we're starting to-morrow morning.<>
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I would not suggest that it is in the least likely thatyour son would do anything to make you doubt his fitness for the charge.<>
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In spite of his hoary hair,his figure as well as his face suggested strength, and he carried hisstick more like a cudgel than a crutch.<>
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He seemed rather amused at their suggestions about trivialhiding-places for the gem; and certainly he showed no resentmentwhatever.<>
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