Example Sentences

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But the mood passed away before a fresh upwelling of concrete resentment against the self-pampered pair at the Promenade window.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel

Mr. Candish was of all men the one least resembling the traditional pastor of a fashionable church, and had nothing of the caressing manner dear to the souls of self-pampered penitents.

From The Puritans by Bates, Arlo