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Prince Bagration turned to the officer and with his dull eyes looked at him in silence.

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If Ralph were here, he'd find this very dull," Mary thought, with a little shiver of irritation, which led her to place her rose the wrong way in the basket.

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I've only got the news in this letter, which you stigmatize as dull and stupid, and won't let me read.

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I never thought of the other world,' she murmured, in low dull tones, like a woman talking in her sleep.

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Everybody seemed to stare so stupidly somehow; she feared a dull day.

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To say the truth, these soporific parts are so many scenes of serious artfully interwoven, in order to contrast and set off the rest; and this is the true meaning of a late facetious writer, who told the public that whenever he was dull they might be assured there was a design in it.

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Instead of the customary humble and grateful thanks from the non-escorted one there was to be perceived a high- poised head, a prideful dimpling at the corners of a broad mouth, and almost a sparkle in a dull brown eye.

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It's not dull if one has work to do; besides, one's not dull by oneself," Levin replied abruptly.

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When under the influence of the latter feeling, his eye never failed to seek the visage of his dull and impenetrable kinsman.