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From that world-wide theatre of nodding heads and buzzing whisperers, in which she now beheld herself unpitiably martyred, one door stood open.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Its flakes, like the snow-flakes on a river, were for one moment bright, then gone for ever; it perished unpitiably.

From Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 by Various

From that world-wide theatre of nodding heads and buzzing whisperers, in which she now beheld herself unpitiably martyred, one door stood open. 

From Prince Otto, a Romance by Stevenson, Robert Louis