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Vocabolario e frasi
Had his own happiness, however,been the only sacrifice, he might have been allowed to sport with it inwhatever manner he thought best, but her sister's was involved in it, asshe thought he must be sensible himself.<>
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Do not involveyourself or endeavour to involve him in an affection which the wantof fortune would make so very imprudent.<>
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You dare not,you cannot deny, that you have been the principal, if not the only meansof dividing them from each other--of exposing one to the censure of theworld for caprice and instability, and the other to its derision fordisappointed hopes, and involving them both in misery of the acutestkind.<>
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Most earnestly did she labour to prove the probability of error, andseek to clear the one without involving the other.<>
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Vain,ignorant, idle, and absolutely uncontrolled! Oh! my dear father, can yousuppose it possible that they will not be censured and despised whereverthey are known, and that their sisters will not be often involved in thedisgrace?"Mr. Bennet saw that her whole heart was in the subject, andaffectionately taking her hand said in reply:"Do not make yourself uneasy, my love.<>
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(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) Then, perceiving in Elizabeth no inclination of replying, she added,"Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this usefullesson: that loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that onefalse step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no lessbrittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded inher behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.<>
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They agree with me in apprehending thatthis false step in one daughter will be injurious to the fortunes ofall the others; for who, as Lady Catherine herself condescendingly says,will connect themselves with such a family? And this consideration leadsme moreover to reflect, with augmented satisfaction, on a certain eventof last November; for had it been otherwise, I must have been involvedin all your sorrow and disgrace.<>
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THE PICKWICKIANS The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into adazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of thepublic career of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be involved, isderived from the perusal of the following entry in the Transactions ofthe Pickwick Club, which the editor of these papers feels the highestpleasure in laying before his readers, as a proof of the carefulattention, indefatigable assiduity, and nice discrimination, with whichhis search among the multifarious documents confided to him has beenconducted.<>
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Shall I involvemy friend in transportation--possibly for life!' Mr. Snodgrass winceda little at this, but his heroism was invincible.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'I remember--though it's one of the last things I can remember: for nowI mix up realities with my dreams, and having so much to do, and beingalways hurried here, have no time to separate the two, from some strangeconfusion in which they get involved--I remember how I let it out atlast.<>
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Mr. Pickwick struck the table emphatically with his clenched fist, andspoke as follows:--'Is it not a wonderful circumstance,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'that we seemdestined to enter no man's house without involving him in some degreeof trouble? Does it not, I ask, bespeak the indiscretion, or, worse thanthat, the blackness of heart--that I should say so!--of my followers,that, beneath whatever roof they locate, they disturb the peace of mindand happiness of some confiding female? Is it not, I say--'Mr. Pickwick would in all probability have gone on for some time, hadnot the entrance of Sam, with a letter, caused him to break off in hiseloquent discourse.<>
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For more than two years afterwards, Mr. Heyling would sit whole daystogether, in the office, poring over the papers as they accumulated,and reading again and again, his eyes gleaming with joy, the letters ofremonstrance, the prayers for a little delay, the representations of thecertain ruin in which the opposite party must be involved, which pouredin, as suit after suit, and process after process, was commenced.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Mr. Pickwick, in his turn, conscious of his own innocence and rectitude,and irritated by having unfortunately involved the middle-aged lady insuch an unpleasant affair, was not so quietly disposed as was his wont.<>
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The unfortunate Grummer proceeded to re-state his complaint, but, whatbetween Mr. Jinks's taking down his words, and the magistrate's takingthem up, his natural tendency to rambling, and his extreme confusion,he managed to get involved, in something under three minutes, in sucha mass of entanglement and contradiction, that Mr. Nupkins at oncedeclared he didn't believe him.<>
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Miss Nupkins possessed all her mamma's haughtiness withoutthe turban, and all her ill-nature without the wig; and whenever theexercise of these two amiable qualities involved mother and daughterin some unpleasant dilemma, as they not infrequently did, theyboth concurred in laying the blame on the shoulders of Mr. Nupkins.<>
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This involvedthe necessity of looking up at the windows also; and as the young ladywas still there, it was an act of common politeness to wink again, andto drink to her good health in dumb show, in another draught of thebeer, which Sam did; and having frowned hideously upon a small boy whohad noted this latter proceeding with open eyes, he threw one leg overthe other, and, holding the newspaper in both hands, began to read inreal earnest.<>
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My uncle always said, afterwards, that this was one of thesurest means he knew of, for disposing of an enemy; but it was liable toone objection on the ground of expense, inasmuch as it involved the lossof a sword for every man disabled.<>
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These indications of a musing spirit were addressed to the mottled-facedman, whose eyes Mr. Pell had accidentally caught; on which, themottled-faced man, whose apprehension of matters in general was of afoggy nature, moved uneasily in his seat, and opined that, indeed, sofar as that went, there was no saying how things was brought about;which observation, involving one of those subtle propositions which itis difficult to encounter in argument, was controverted by nobody.<>
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Supposing I were desirous of establishing them comfortably asman and wife in some little business or situation, where they might hopeto obtain a decent living, what should you think of it, Mr. Weller?'At first, Mr. Weller received with wry faces a proposition involving themarriage of anybody in whom he took an interest; but, as Mr. Pickwickargued the point with him, and laid great stress on the fact that Marywas not a widow, he gradually became more tractable.<>
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The decanters passed from hand to hand with unwonted briskness, andMr. Pickwick, looking round on the faces of his friends with a cheerfulsmile, proceeded--'All the changes that have taken place among us,'said Mr. Pickwick, 'I mean the marriage that HAS taken place, and themarriage that WILL take place, with the changes they involve, renderedit necessary for me to think, soberly and at once, upon my future plans.<>
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Some have spec'lated, sir, as to whether thedifference of method may perhaps involve rather the absence of method.<>
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A group of actors and other people involved were already standingin front of it, conferring and considering, one might almost fancy, theadvisability of a battering-ram.<>
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