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Similarly, men often feel preassured to compete with males within a group environment, even when the criterion for ‘strength’ is vulgarity and crassness.
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It was no time for farther assurances or entreaty, though to part with her at a moment when her modesty alone seemed, to his sanguine and preassured mind, to stand in the way of the happiness he sought, was a cruel necessity.
Mansfield Park 2004
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It was no time for farther assurances or entreaty, though to part with her at a moment when her modesty alone seemed, to his sanguine and preassured mind, to stand in the way of the happiness he sought, was a cruel necessity.
Mansfield Park 1814
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It was no time for farther assurances or entreaty, though to part with her at a moment when her modesty alone seemed, to his sanguine and preassured mind, to stand in the way of the happiness he sought, was a cruel necessity.
Mansfield Park Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1814
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a moment when her modesty alone seemed, to his sanguine and preassured mind, to stand in the way of the happiness he sought, was a cruel necessity.
Mansfield Park Jane Austen 1796
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