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Search phrase: promising

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
All's Well That Ends Well	AW III.iii.3.1	Upon thy promising fortune.	Vpon thy promising fortune.
All's Well That Ends Well	AW V.iii.262	going to bed and of other motions, as promising her	going to bed, and of other motions, as promising her
The Comedy of Errors	CE V.i.222	Promising to bring it to the Porpentine,	Promising to bring it to the Porpentine,
Cymbeline	Cym V.v.462	And to the Roman empire; promising	And to the Romane Empire; promising
Timon of Athens	Tim V.i.22	Good as the best. Promising is the very air	Good as the best. / Promising, is the verie Ayre
The Winter's Tale	WT IV.iv.562.2	A course more promising	A Course more promising,

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best-boding	most favourable, most promising
forward	promising, early-maturing, precocious
fruitful	promising, full of potential, talented
hopeful	promising, giving hope of success
likely	promising, hopeful; or: seemly, good-looking
prodigious	ominous, portentous, promising evil
saying	promising, affirmation, assertion
toward	promising, bold, future

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evil, promising	prodigious
promising	toward
promising	saying
promising	fruitful
promising	hopeful
promising	likely
promising	forward
promising evil	prodigious
promising, most	best-boding

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