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I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield
I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.