| Historians have long probed Lincoln's life and character, seeking the key to his almost saintlike standing in the American pantheon. |
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| Not only does Fancy contradict southern ideals but in her saintlike manner, she possesses qualities nobler than those of the aristocrats with whom she seeks to identify. |
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| Pearl's self-starvation references young women through the ages who rejected food as their only method of assertion and who were regarded as saintlike in their martyrdom. |
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| It was you who slid your hand down down inside my trousers... and frigged me slowly until I came off through your fingers, all the time bending over me and gazing at me out of your quiet saintlike eyes. |
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| Earhart was saintlike only as a martyr to her own ambition, who became an object of veneration and is periodically resurrected — her unvarnished glamour, like a holy man's body, still miraculously fresh. |
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| Because of Lenin's importance to the revolution and the saintlike status the Communists gave him, the Soviet government decided to have his body preserved. |
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