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1 Energy, depth, a pathetic earnestness - these are the traits that distinguish this poet.
2 Her distraught eyes searched his face with a pathetic earnestness .
3 His eyes looked out from under his helmet with a sort of pathetic earnestness .
4 Arrived at his boarding-house, he thanked us with pathetic earnestness , and urged us to go in.
5 He moved cheerfully about the room, and she watched him all the time with almost pathetic earnestness .
6 It was the strongest urge of his life, and put into his pleading an almost pathetic earnestness .
7 Deodatus looked at his master with eyes of pathetic earnestness , tried in vain to speak, and burst into tears.
8 Nevertheless, when father began to speak, I was drawn to listen by a certain pathetic earnestness in his voice.
9 When this meeting did finally take place, on October 16th, we were all impressed with the pathetic earnestness of the Belgians upon this subject.
10 Pathetic earnestness in this girl still no more than seventeen!
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