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It is time that this ill-suppressed murmur of all thoughtful men against the famine of our churches; this moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the consolation, the hope, the grandeur, that come alone out of the culture of the moral nature; should be heard through the sleep of indolence, and over the din of routine.
An Address 2006
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He pedalled with ill-suppressed anger, and his head was going down.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006
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Do not men receive even my benefits with shrinking horror and ill-suppressed disgust?
The Black Dwarf 2004
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For answer, she took his face between her hands, and looked at him with such an ill-suppressed fire in her eyes that all he could do was to draw her into his arms.
Maurice Guest 2003
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I ask, they grunt their approval, and then they ignore me for the duration of the song, staring at the ceiling, glaring at the ill-suppressed giggles of their friends, checking the location of their precious handbags, in fact looking anywhere but at me.
Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003
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He gryph-grinned at Tad's ill-suppressed look of eagerness.
The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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He gryph-grinned at Tad's ill-suppressed look of eagerness.
The Silver Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1996
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As I stopped by the doctor's side, he said, with ill-suppressed agitation,
A Strange Discovery Charles Romyn Dake
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It is so like Mrs. Monkton's own voice and manner that Felix, with a start, turns his eyes on the author of it, and nurse, with an ill-suppressed smile, leaves the room.
April's Lady A Novel Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
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"I am neither Joyce nor Miss Maliphant," says Lady Baltimore, with ill-suppressed contempt.
April's Lady A Novel Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
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