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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Observing his second daughter employed in trimming a hat, hesuddenly addressed her with:"I hope Mr. Bingley will like it, Lizzy.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "I was very much flattered by his asking me to dance a second time.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) "Yes; but he seemed to like his second better.<>
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After a pause of some minutes, she addressed him a second timewith:--"It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy.<>
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Mr. Collins, however,was not discouraged from speaking again, and Mr. Darcy's contempt seemedabundantly increasing with the length of his second speech, and at theend of it he only made him a slight bow, and moved another way.<>
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He took the hint,and when Mary had finished her second song, said aloud, "That will doextremely well, child.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Her impatience for this second letter was as well rewarded as impatiencegenerally is.<>
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She wasto accompany Sir William and his second daughter.<>
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They were then, with no other delay than his pointing out theneatness of the entrance, taken into the house; and as soon as theywere in the parlour, he welcomed them a second time, with ostentatiousformality to his humble abode, and punctually repeated all his wife'soffers of refreshment.<>
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How it could occur a second time,therefore, was very odd! Yet it did, and even a third.<>
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Widelydifferent was the effect of a second perusal.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Chapter 39It was the second week in May, in which the three young ladies set outtogether from Gracechurch Street for the town of ----, in Hertfordshire;and, as they drew near the appointed inn where Mr. Bennet's carriagewas to meet them, they quickly perceived, in token of the coachman'spunctuality, both Kitty and Lydia looking out of a dining-room up stairs.<>
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The second began.<>
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Never, since reading Jane's second letter, had she entertaineda hope of Wickham's meaning to marry her.<>
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But, on second thoughts, perhaps,Lizzy could tell us what relations he has now living, better than anyother person.<>
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She followed him withher eyes, envied everyone to whom he spoke, had scarcely patience enoughto help anybody to coffee; and then was enraged against herself forbeing so silly!"A man who has once been refused! How could I ever be foolish enough toexpect a renewal of his love? Is there one among the sex, who would notprotest against such a weakness as a second proposal to the same woman?There is no indignity so abhorrent to their feelings!"She was a little revived, however, by his bringing back his coffee cuphimself; and she seized the opportunity of saying:"Is your sister at Pemberley still?""Yes, she will remain there till Christmas.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Mr. Bennet missed his second daughter exceedingly; his affection for herdrew him oftener from home than anything else could do.<>
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Or possibly,' said the man with the camp-stool, 'thegentleman's second may feel himself affronted with some observationswhich fell from me at an early period of this meeting; if so, I shall behappy to give him satisfaction immediately.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) While the old gentleman repeated these lines a second time, to enableMr. Snodgrass to note them down, Mr. Pickwick perused the lineaments ofhis face with an expression of great interest.<>
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Mr. Pickwick needed no second invitation.<>
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Show the gentleman the way there; d'ye hear?'The boy departed to execute his commission; and the host, carrying bothguns like a second Robinson Crusoe, led the way from the garden.<>
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The only other inmates of the housewere a large man and a small boy; the first a lodger, the second aproduction of Mrs.<>
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Pott herself; and asMr. Winkle had undertaken to escort that lady to a house-top, in theimmediate vicinity of the hustings, Mr. Pickwick and Mr. Pott repairedalone to the Town Arms, from the back window of which, one of Mr.Slumkey's committee was addressing six small boys and one girl, whom hedignified, at every second sentence, with the imposing title of 'Men ofEatanswill,' whereat the six small boys aforesaid cheered prodigiously.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) A second roar.<>
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Now, if there wasone thing in the whole range of domestic art, which the widow couldmanufacture better than another, it was this identical article; andthe first tumbler was adapted to Tom Smart's taste with such peculiarnicety, that he ordered a second with the least possible delay.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'And what sort of a place have you got?' inquired Sam, as he filled hiscompanion's glass, for the second time.<>
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Thus, for the second time, did Mr. Pickwick's innate good-feelinginvolve him in an enterprise from which he would most willingly havestood aloof.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) He had not been here five minutes, when a vivid flash of lightning wasfollowed by a loud peal of thunder that crashed and rolled away in thedistance with a terrific noise--then came another flash of lightning,brighter than the other, and a second peal of thunder louder than thefirst; and then down came the rain, with a force and fury that swepteverything before it.<>
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It needed no second invitation to induce the party to yield full justiceto the meal; and as little pressing did it require to induce Mr. Weller,the long gamekeeper, and the two boys, to station themselves on thegrass, at a little distance, and do good execution upon a decentproportion of the viands.<>
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How's mother-in-law?Wy, I'll tell you what, Sammy,' said Mr. Weller, senior, with muchsolemnity in his manner; 'there never was a nicer woman as a widder,than that 'ere second wentur o' mine--a sweet creetur she was, Sammy;all I can say on her now, is, that as she was such an uncommon pleasantwidder, it's a great pity she ever changed her condition.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Mr. Pickwick had dined, finished his second pint of particular port,pulled his silk handkerchief over his head, put his feet on the fender,and thrown himself back in an easy-chair, when the entrance of Mr.Weller with his carpet-bag, aroused him from his tranquil meditation.<>
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A second and a third bowl wereordered in; and when Mr. Pickwick awoke next morning, there was not asymptom of rheumatism about him; which proves, as Mr. Bob Sawyer veryjustly observed, that there is nothing like hot punch in such cases; andthat if ever hot punch did fail to act as a preventive, it was merelybecause the patient fell into the vulgar error of not taking enough ofit.<>
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We should be rather disposed tosay that the result was attained by combining the two sources ofconsolation, for he repeated the second in a low tone, very frequently;ringing the bell meanwhile, to order in the first.<>
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Finding that it was of no use todiscuss the matter further, Sam changed the subject, and inquired whatthe second topic was, on which his revered parent wished to consult him.<>
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There was one younggentleman in an India-rubber cloak, who smoked cigars all day; and therewas another young gentleman in a parody upon a greatcoat, who lighted agood many, and feeling obviously unsettled after the second whiff, threwthem away when he thought nobody was looking at him.<>
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As the trump card was turned up, at thecommencement of the second deal, two young ladies hurried into the room,and took their stations on either side of Mrs.<>
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He had adistinct recollection of having once consented to eat salt butter, andhe had, moreover, on an occasion of sudden sickness in the house, so farforgotten himself as to carry a coal-scuttle up to the second floor.<>
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Don't stop a second in the street, arter that 'ere exercise.<>
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Saying which, the attorneyshrugged his shoulders, smiled, took a second pinch of snuff, and ledthe way into the office of the judge's clerk.<>
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We would beg to callparticular attention to the monosyllable at the end of the second andfourth lines, which not only enables the singer to take breath at thosepoints, but greatly assists the metre.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) The elder Mr. Weller observed these signs and tokens with manymanifestations of disgust, and when, after a second jug of the same,Mr. Stiggins began to sigh in a dismal manner, he plainly evinced hisdisapprobation of the whole proceedings, by sundry incoherent ramblingsof speech, among which frequent angry repetitions of the word 'gammon'were alone distinguishable to the ear.<>
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Good-night, Tommy!'As Jackson hurried away in company with the man with the ash stickanother man, with a key in his hand, who had been looking on, ledthe bewildered female to a second short flight of steps leading to adoorway.<>
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On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you hadknown him, for if you had, you would have been all, by this time, in theordinary course of nature, if not dead, at all events so near it, as tohave taken to stopping at home and giving up company, which wouldhave deprived me of the inestimable pleasure of addressing you at thismoment.<>
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On second thoughts, however, he abandoned this plan, as being ashade too melodramatic in the execution, and followed the two mysteriousmen, who, keeping the lady between them, were now entering an old housein front of which the coach had stopped.<>
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Oh, yes!' said Mr. Pickwick, after a second taste.<>
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Friendship's a very good thing in its way--we are all veryfriendly and comfortable at the Stump, for instance, over our grog,where every man pays for himself; but damn hurting yourself for anybodyelse, you know! No man should have more than two attachments--the first,to number one, and the second to the ladies; that's what I say--ha! ha!'Mr. Lowten concluded with a loud laugh, half in jocularity, and halfin derision, which was prematurely cut short by the sound of Perker'sfootsteps on the stairs, at the first approach of which, he vaulted onhis stool with an agility most remarkable, and wrote intensely.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) As the elder Mr. Weller insisted on selling out his portion forthwith,they proceeded from the bank to the gate of the Stock Exchange, to whichWilkins Flasher, Esquire, after a short absence, returned with a chequeon Smith, Payne, & Smith, for five hundred and thirty pounds; thatbeing the money to which Mr. Weller, at the market price of the day, wasentitled, in consideration of the balance of the second Mrs.<>
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The Second Sight Sisterhood ofIndianapolis----"(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) Father Brown, was still staring at the stove; then he said quite loudyet as if hardly aware that anyone heard him: "Oh, I say.<>
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"The Second Sight Sisterhood want a lot of holding down.<>
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They fall into the larger section of the second division, of what we maycall prudential crimes.<>
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Itcontained Mandeville's second walking gentleman, carrying on the not yetwholly vanished tradition of Charles's Friend, a dark, curly-hairedyouth of somewhat Semitic profile bearing the name of Aubrey Vernon.<>
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And yetthe second glory came from the first glory through the infamy andimbecility of Edward II, who fawned upon Gaveston and ran away fromBruce.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) "A second point," said Father Brown, frowning at the table.<>
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Theyfought in the English fashion, with only one second apiece; I wanted atleast to have a surgeon, but Maurice boisterously refused it, saying thefewer people who knew, the better; and at the worst we could immediatelyget help.<>
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That is the picture that really remains with me; andthere is nothing else in that picture, except the striped background ofsands and sea and the dark, dead body lying still as a stone, and thedark figure of the dead man's second standing grim and motionlessagainst the horizon.<>
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He sawthe dark-red desolation of sand, the very hue of Aceldama, and thedead man lying in a dark heap, and the slayer, stooping as he ran,gesticulating with a glove in demented remorse, and always hisimagination came back to the third thing that he could not yet fit intoany human picture: the second of the slain man standing motionless andmysterious, like a dark statue on the edge of the sea.<>
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Anyhow, whenthe thing was all over, it would be natural for the second to stir longbefore the other second had vanished beyond the sandhills.<>
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