a jolt ago, a something of
a something of sternness too about her manner, which,
though difficult to define in words, was felt ₁
a — something of a difficulty.
Things have not gone straight. ₂
something of a — something of a jolt, eh?
It never occurred to me ₃
sources
- Forty Years Ago. a Novel. By Mrs. C. J. Newby. Vol. 1 (of 2) (London, 1867) : 92 / more
- Agnes Giberne, A Modern Puck : A Fairy Story for Children, with fifty illustrations by Florence W. Cooper (London, 1898) : 93 / more
- Willa Sibert Cather, “The Marriage of Phaedra,” in The Troll Garden (1905) : 157-191 (192) / more
It never occurred to me she’d really do it.
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