Example Sentences

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Hilarity and abjection, humiliation and futility, aggression and a feeling of windedness are all on the surface.

From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2013

Still more valuable would it be, however—indeed, he would be cured of his infatuation forever, if—if—” “If what?” inquired the young man, tired of the Chancellor’s long windedness and beating about the bush.

From The Princess Virginia by Guipon, Leon