However, at his well-filled board, conversation, generally, though displeasingly to himself, turned upon politics, and I had there often listened, of late, to dark hints of the danger to which we were exposed, and of the restless machinations of the Jacobites.
"Devereux, Book I."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
My aunt winced displeasingly to my sight: 'I see nothing to astonish one.
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In the midst of the strange, unfamiliar emotion which his eye conveyed to his heart, Percival's ear was displeasingly jarred by the loud, bluff, hearty voice of the girl's female companion- "Gracious me!
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