And I venture to remind her that it is fatal in this kind of story to replace known facts by unnecessary fiction; for example, to speak, as she does, of a German warship in the Indian Ocean as the Blücher , when all the world knows that that particular vessel was elsewhere.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 14, 1919 by Various
In France, they declared, they had never heard of such a measure; and they could not, even before us, forbear from expressing their disgust.
— from The Englishwoman in Italy Impressions of life in the Roman states and Sardinia, during a ten years' residence by Gretton, G., Mrs.
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