Example Sentences

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But apart from this urgent passion, there are many quieter ways in which the same spirit, the same emotion, which is nothing but a sense of self-significance, comes into the soul.

From Joyous Gard by Benson, Arthur Christopher

It was taking too much notice of him: it was adding to his self-significance; and a call upon him to treat you with insolence.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 by Richardson, Samuel