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  • "Tishy Grendon," with all the pieces of the game on the table together and each unconfusedly and contributively placed, as triumphantly scientific.

    The Awkward Age Henry James 1879

  • There are reasons why one would have liked this to be felt, as in general one would like almost anything to be felt, in one's work, that one has one's self contributively felt.

    The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 Henry James 1879

  • Dormer's story his and yet making it also and all effectively in a large part Peter Sherringham's, of keeping Sherringham's his and yet making it in its high degree his kinsman's too, and Miriam Rooth's into the bargain; just as Miriam Rooth's is by the same token quite operatively his and Nick's, and just as that of each of the young men, by an equal logic, is very contributively hers -- the interest of such a question, I say, is ever so considerably the interest of the system on which the whole thing is done.

    The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879

  • There are reasons why one would have liked this to be felt, as in general one would like almost anything to be felt, in one’s work, that one has one’s self contributively felt.

    The Portrait of a Lady 2003

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