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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
Looked
Restlessness
Heart
Strange
Weeks
Week
Passed
Faces
Rising
Hope
Healing
Also
Hearts
Inextinguishable
Moved
Mounts
Earth
Spring
Sap
Women

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