Example Sentences

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This was uttered in the softest, sweetest tone imaginable, and as if she had been pronouncing a panegyric.

From Marriage by Ferrier, Susan Edmonstone

While she had been straining her very soul in this attempt, the object of her magnanimity had been pronouncing her "not honest."

From The Spoils of Poynton by James, Henry