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and correct there is not a line
Its grammar is faultless, its style is pure, flowing, terse, and correct, there is not a line of fine writing from beginning to end, and there is a total absence of anything like moralising, or the introduction of pretty ineffectual sermons....
— from For Sceptre and Crown: A Romance of the Present Time. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Gregor Samarow

any case there is never any lack
In any case, there is never any lack of the beauty which comes of the impregnation of wild nature with the outcome of human intelligence.
— from Lancashire: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes by Leo H. (Leo Hartley) Grindon

a courtesy that is not a little
It is a courtesy that is not a little drawn upon.
— from Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean on board an American frigate by Nathaniel Parker Willis

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