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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

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Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
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Hearts
Inextinguishable
Earth
Moved
Mounts
Women
Spring
Sap
Heart
Looked
Restlessness
Strange
Weeks
Week
Passed
Faces
Rising
Hope
Healing

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