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- No one but young Hillyer had been intimate with Flint Buckner; no one had really had a quarrel with him; he had affronted every man who had tried to make up to him, although not quite offensively enough to require bloodshed. [5]
- Had he expected to live he could not have said those words in that offensively cold tone. [2]
- Mind, he did this while his own hat sat offensively near our noses, on the table--an ancient extinguisher of the "slouch" pattern, limp and shapeless with age, discolored by vicissitudes of the weather, and banded by an equator of bear's grease that had stewed through. [5]
- The two sat side by side on the limb and discussed me as freely and offensively as two great naturalists might discuss a new kind of bug. [5]
- They crowd you --infest you--swarm about you, and sweat and smell offensively, and look sneaking and mean, and obsequious. [5]
- He could not have showed more offensively how little he cared for her--but perhaps he was under the influence of a spell; for she must be something to him. [10]
- I had never had occasion to kill anybody, nor ever felt a desire to do so, but had worn the thing in deference to popular sentiment, and in order that I might not, by its absence, be offensively conspicuous, and a subject of remark. [5]
- Now, crushed and feeble, she presented a pitiable image of powerless yet offensively hollow splendour. [10]
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