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1  Now that we have gratified the inner man, let us gratify the desire of the spirit.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
ContextHighlight   In Unit 10
2  It was plain to all that the natural desire of the natural man was overcoming him.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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3  Most consciously she felt--she had drunk sweet wine at luncheon--a desire for water.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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4  They were going; above all things, she desired cold water, a beaker of cold water; but desire petered out, suppressed by the leaden duty she owed to others.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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5  They were going; above all things, she desired cold water, a beaker of cold water; but desire petered out, suppressed by the leaden duty she owed to others.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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6  Uninvited, unexpected, droppers-in, lured off the high road by the very same instinct that caused the sheep and the cows to desire propinquity, they had come.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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7  It was a shock to find, after the morning's look in the glass, and the arrow of desire shot through her last night by the gentleman farmer, how much she felt when he came in, not a dapper city gent, but a cricketer, of love; and of hate.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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8  But this whitish house with the grey roof, and the wing thrown out at right angles, lying unfortunately low on the meadow with a fringe of trees on the bank above it so that smoke curled up to the nests of the rooks, was a desirable house to live in.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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9  But what a desirable, at least valuable, quality it was--for everybody felt, directly she spoke, "She's said it, she's done it, not I," and could take advantage of the breach of decorum, of the fresh air that blew in, to follow like leaping dolphins in the wake of an ice-breaking vessel.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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