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  • The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetnesses of the spirit did not exist.

    The Covenant 2010

  • The world as he saw it was a fierce and brutal world, a world without warmth, a world in which caresses and affection and the bright sweetnesses of the spirit did not exist. 35

    Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang 2010

  • Here I found, also, warm faith in the human, glowing idealism, sweetnesses of unselfishness, renunciation, and martyrdom — all the splendid, stinging things of the spirit.

    What Life Means to Me 2010

  • ` Amongst the revolutionists I found, also, warm faith in the human, ardent idealism, sweetnesses of unselfishness, renunciation, and martyrdom -- all the splendid, stinging things of the spirit.

    Chapter 5: The Philomaths 2010

  • And I made him my pal and comrade, and found him a veritable honey pot of sweetnesses and goodnesses.

    THE PRINCESS 2010

  • For Abi Morgan, now in her early 40s, it was of course the 80s, hence perhaps the unlikely personal sweetnesses of Royal Wedding.

    Abi Morgan: Television's best-kept secret | Observer profile 2011

  • To leave our prayer when we are called to do some act of charity for our neighbour, is not really a quitting of prayer, but leaving Christ for Christ, that is, depriving ourselves of spiritual sweetnesses in order to gain souls.

    Archive 2009-06-21 Esther 2009

  • To leave our prayer when we are called to do some act of charity for our neighbour, is not really a quitting of prayer, but leaving Christ for Christ, that is, depriving ourselves of spiritual sweetnesses in order to gain souls.

    St. Philip Neri's Maxims - Part III On Prayer and Purity of Young Men Esther 2009

  • And, thus soaked and resuscitated, had she snapped back, remembering where she was and who he was and, in short, thrown herself at him, cooing sweetnesses and addressing his flesh in a way he pretended was, but knew was not, unaided by substances abused and pre-existing conditions?

    The Cryerer Jim Hanas 2009

  • And, thus soaked and resuscitated, had she snapped back, remembering where she was and who he was and, in short, thrown herself at him, cooing sweetnesses and addressing his flesh in a way he pretended was, but knew was not, unaided by substances abused and pre-existing conditions?

    The Cryerer 2009

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