ransom
Example Sentences
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RANSOM: "She seemed so much above me in every way—so sensitive, so refined, so gentle, so good, so angelic!"
From The Register by Howells, William Dean
RANSOM: "—It isn't a thing that I care to shout from the house- tops."
From The Register by Howells, William Dean
RANSOM: "And it occurred to me that she was perfectly right in the whole affair."
From The Register by Howells, William Dean
RANSOM: "Yes; I didn't do it by halves."
From The Register by Howells, William Dean
RANSOM: "That's the remarkable part of it: she lives in this house."
From The Register by Howells, William Dean
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