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a broader redder and more irregular splendour
The light, which they now approached more nearly, assumed a broader, redder, and more irregular splendour.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

a broader redder and more irregular splendour
The light, which they now approached more nearly, assumed a broader, redder and more irregular splendour.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

always been reckoned a mild inoffensive sort
Nothing else would explain the mystery, for Hen had always been reckoned a mild, inoffensive sort of fellow, one of the last boys in Hickory Ridge to do anything so terrible as commit a robbery.
— from Afloat; or, Adventures on Watery Trails by Douglas, Alan, Captain

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