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She can be of no further use in servitude, and I would have thee set her free to bear company to her love, the white-souled Rachel.
The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller
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Such untoward conduct as here appears is not put in for its own interesting sake, but merely to bring out the white-souled nobility of the principals.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 17, 1920 Various
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There are white-haired old men who are only just learning the alphabet of Christ's religion, in the lowest place; and there are little children, so pure and white-souled, that they have already mastered some of the hardest lessons.
The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles H. J. Wilmot-Buxton
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The noble heart that beat so true to honour's highest notes was not stilled, but a bullet missing the brain had closed his eyes for ever to God's sunlight, leaving him to go through life in darkness; and they mourned for him as they had mourned for noble, white-souled Wauchope, whose prototype he was.
Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales
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In that vibrant voice and in his passionate concern for the soul of men, there burned a white-souled homage to God, and a faith and love that spoke to each one's condition.
Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati Warren Crocker Herrick
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Telling that some white-souled maiden in the snowy bower slept.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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King of the Kidnappers, on broad and impressive lines, and one glance would have been enough to tell the sagacious observer that here was no white-souled comrade for a nocturnal saunter down lonely lanes and out-of-the-way alleys.
Piccadilly Jim 1928
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But the repentant Selina bewailed herself with tears and sobs, refusing to be comforted; for that in her haste she had called this white-souled relative a beast.
The Golden Age 1915
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Children of the Abbey, and Clarissa to the sweet-faced white-souled matron.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910
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If it had been, neither of the white-souled dears would have read a word of it.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910
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