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Much, no doubt, will strike the reader as quaint and limited but upon much the writer may not unreasonably plume himself.

And, as for me, if, by any possibility, there be any as yet undiscovered prime thing in me; if I shall ever deserve any real repute in that small but high hushed world which I might not be unreasonably ambitious of; if hereafter I shall do anything that, upon the whole, a man might rather have done than to have left undone; if, at my death, my executors, or more properly my creditors, find any precious MSS.

As I never saw my father or my mother, and never saw any likeness of either of them (for their days were long before the days of photographs), my first fancies regarding what they were like, were unreasonably derived from their tombstones.

The bond between us was the ship; and therein a ship, though she has female attributes and is loved very unreasonably, is different from a woman.

He made haste to finish buying the horses, and often became unreasonably angry with his servant and squadron quartermaster.

Again, David will not unbend when in the company of babies, expecting them unreasonably to rise to his level, but contrariwise Porthos, though terrible to tramps, suffers all things of babies, even to an exploration of his mouth in an attempt to discover what his tongue is like at the other end.

But when two or three days passed without my seeing him, I certainly felt very anxious--absurdly, unreasonably so; for, of course, he had his own business and the affairs of his parish to attend to.

Sara Ray, of course, began to cry, which aggravated me unreasonably.

On the supposition that Pearl, as already hinted, was of demon origin, these good people not unreasonably argued that a Christian interest in the mother's soul required them to remove such a stumbling-block from her path.

He was not an illtempered man, not so often unreasonably cross as to deserve such a reproach; but his temper was not his great perfection; and, indeed, with such a worshipping wife, it was hardly possible that any natural defects in it should not be increased.

You have taken a perverse hatred to Frank; and you are unreasonably angry with me because I won't hate him, too.

Indeed, it is hard to increase unreasonably the price of the chambers, when one has had the honor to let them at a reasonable price."