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Only the even lines rhyme, except in the four-line or stop-short poem, when the first line often rhymes with the second and fourth, curiously recalling the Rubaiyat form of the Persian poets.

When, on the present occasion, I entered the gaming-rooms(for the first time in my life), it was several moments before I could even make up my mind to play.

I want now to tell you, gentlemen, whether you care to hear it or not, why I could not even become an insect.

She had not forgotten one word of the directions given to her by Cornelius, whose speeches she treasured in her heart, even when they did not take the shape of directions.

Why, he had been ready a thousand times before to give up existence for the sake of an idea, for a hope, even for a fancy.

It would be refining too much, perhaps, even considering his monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all sperm whales, and that the more monsters he slew by so much the more he multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale would prove to be the hated one he hunted.

And even the little God may he find, who is dearest to maidens: beside the well lieth he quietly, with closed eyes.

Josie was unusually amiable -- so much so that she even remarked condescendingly to Anne,

Elinor, for some time after he left her, for some time even after the sound of his carriage had died away, remained too much oppressed by a crowd of ideas, widely differing in themselves, but of which sadness was the general result, to think even of her sister.

Both knew, without a shade of doubt, what sort of thing life was and what was death, and though neither of them could have answered, and would even not have understood the questions that presented themselves to Levin, both had no doubt of the significance of this event, and were precisely alike in their way of looking at it, which they shared with millions of people.

Even Dango, the hyena, would have seemed a tidbit to that ravenous maw.

Perhaps, even, they would not believe in the absolute sincerity of his motives.