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For swiftly to be extinguished is that race, whose only heir but so much as impends upon a deed of shame. And some deed of shame, or something most dubious and most dark, is in thy soul, or else some belying specter, with a cloudy, shame-faced front, sat at yon seat but now!
Herman Melville • Pierre; or The Ambiguities
sable
Edith Wharton • House of Mirth
He has no venture in the present. But though comparatively disregarded now, when his day comes, laws unsuspected by most will take effect, and masters of families and rulers will come to him for advice.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
pretermitted
Ralph Waldo Emerson • Nature
He made no scruple to charge me with being in love;
Charles Brockden Brown • Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale
A sister had been omitted from the text.