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... very dangerous precedent. Thus neither the ultras nor the moderates were content with the issue of the Italian crisis. But still deeper indignation swelled the heart of the old man, who had gone forth to the Italian war with freshened hopes and had come back from it reluctantly, with the consciousness of having rendered new services and of having received in return new and most severe mortifications, with the bitter feeling of being no longer dreaded but despised by his enemies, with that gnawing spirit of vengeance in his ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... tailor imparts that final deft touch that adjusts ready-made garments to the most difficult figure. It would be handier for him to conduct the sartorial transformations in the chamber over his own gate, wouldn't it? And I don't think we need wait for that photographer to come back from the penitentiary ...

— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson

... waiter, "he came, but you had not yet returned, so he left word that he'd come back. Some one knocked just ...

— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere

... Darrin shook the spray from his eyes he made out the "Grigsby" only as a dark mass far ahead. Then a wave blotted her out. When next he looked he saw nothing. The third time he made out a still more indistinct mass, which, he judged, was turning to come back and look ...

— Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers • H. Irving Hancock

... again at once, Senorita; that was a year ago. And I have never heard from him. If, as the peasants say, the mind of a friend has wings, perhaps Mateo's mind has flown on to tell me that he is coming. He said he would come back." ...

— Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories • Henry Seton Merriman

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