1 Now, her never- too-scrupulous sense of honor was dulled by repetition of the offense and even fear of discovery had subsided.
2 Scarlett heard over and over until she could have screamed at the repetition: "I'd have taken their damned oath right after the surrender if they'd acted decent."
3 But to Miss Bart's relief the repetition of her promise was cut short by the opening of the box door to admit George Dorset.
4 For all her visions she could not control her voice, and she was bored by the fiftieth repetition of her few lines as maid.
5 So Jurgis went on meditating; until finally, when he had been an hour or two in the hall, there began to prepare itself a repetition of the dismal catastrophe of the night before.
6 Magua shook his head, forbidding the repetition of offers he so much despised.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 7 When he had taken this precaution, the scout placed himself in an attitude of intense attention and listened long and keenly for a repetition of the low sound that had so unexpectedly startled him.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19 8 His talk was an endless repetition.
9 The repetition was senseless, hideous, stupefying.
10 All else was verbiage, repetition.
11 But, her repetition of these words seemed to strike with some little discord on his ear.
12 Mr. Bounderby may have been annoyed by the repetition of his own words to Stephen Blackpool, but he cut the quotation short with an angry start.
13 One by one the sullen sounds fell successively on the ear, leaving but sufficient space for each to die away in distant echo, ere the air was again filled by repetition of the iron knell.
14 The repetition of the word, brought Toby to a dead stand-still.
15 Shortly remarking that their roads were different, he departed, without more ceremony than an emphatic repetition of the hour of appointment for the following night.