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arrive by special train and I need
"I drove down from my house some time ago, expecting that you might 286 arrive by special train; and I need hardly say that my carriage, which is waiting, is at your disposal for any use you may care to make of it."
— from The Adventure of Princess Sylvia by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

all but set teeth and inflated nostrils
No creed, no high moral hopes of the rights of man and social regeneration, no true sans culottism even, nothing at all but set teeth and inflated nostrils; blow up, burn, smash, annihilate!
— from The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies

advantageously be shortened to allow its neighbors
Figure 34 , devised from a tomb in Santa Croce, portrays a letter not only beautiful in itself, but one which, with two minor changes (for the top bar of the T might advantageously be shortened to allow its neighbors to set closer, and the M might be finished at the top with a serif, after the usual fashion), is exactly applicable to the purposes of the modern draughtsman.
— from Letters & Lettering: A Treatise with 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown

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