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With scraping of feet, grins, and bows, they welcome us back, smother us with compliments, and seem overwilling to lavish their kindness.

From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by Adams, F. Colburn (Francis Colburn)

How could she, bright freed creature, hungering after the long withheld joyousness of existence, and overwilling to delude herself into the belief that every shadow was a ray of sunlight?

From The Belovéd Vagabond by Locke, William John