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A sister had been omitted from the text.
Herman Melville • Pierre; or The Ambiguities
Since they could remember, there had been a mixture of criticism and awe in the attitude of Celia’s mind towards her elder sister. The younger had always worn a yoke; but is there any yoked creature without its private opinions?
Rosemary Ashton • Middlemarch
five unfortunate souls who had died in gaol: Ann Foster, Sarah Osborne, Lydia Dustin, Roger Toothaker, and Mercy Good, who was born in prison and died before her mother was hanged.
Deborah Harkness • The Black Bird Oracle


Among the young men their friends and neighbours, the belle jeunesse of the Colony, there were many excellent fellows, several devoted swains, and some two or three who enjoyed the reputation of universal charmers and conquerors. But the home-bred arts and the somewhat boisterous gallantry of those honest young colonists were completely eclipsed by
... See moreSusie Boyt • The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories
A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the r
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