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• " Grandfather," she said, leaning slightly forward in her earnestness, " did Jewel really treat Essex Maid?" - "Jewel A Chapter In Her Life", Clara Louise Burnham.
• With serious face and deep earnestness Fritz in his broken English would attempt these lines, while his teacher would bend over and hold his sides with laughter at each ridiculous effort. - "Mark Twain, A Biography, Vol. 1, Part 1, 1835-1866 The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens", Albert Bigelow Paine.
• She has called Edward to her side; she has mentally prayed that strength may be given her for the trial at hand; she has said to herself, " The scene, his tears, his passion, his soul will too deeply move;" and she has charged him, with solemn earnestness, to leave her for some hours to herself, and then to return and bless the remaining days of that life he cannot save. - "Ellen Middleton--A Tale", Georgiana Fullerton.