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What right had she to ask him any question, when for these seven nights and days since they had parted she had been disciplining herself not to think of him in any way?

From Beyond The Rocks A Love Story by Glyn, Elinor

She had been disciplining herself under Rodney's own definition of the term.

From The Real Adventure by Crosby, Raymond Moreau