ransom
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RANSOM: "That was at night; but the next day she came up smiling, and said that if I didn't mind she would keep on—for amusement; she wasn't a bit discouraged."
From The Register by Howells, William Dean
RANSOM, when the front door had closed on her visitor, passed with a spring from the drawing-room to the narrow hall, and thence up the narrow stairs to her bedroom.
From The Hermit and the Wild Woman by Wharton, Edith
But if it's true" - RANSOM: "I COULDN'T speak.
From The Register by Howells, William Dean
RANSOM: "I went up to Ponkwasset early in September for the foliage."
From The Register by Howells, William Dean
RANSOM: "I had had a thousand opportunities, and I hadn't been man enough to tell her that I was in love with her."
From The Register by Howells, William Dean
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