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as not desirable reading at eleven
She was angered when Aunt Jane put a stop to some sportive passes and chatter on the stairs between Valetta and Alice Mount, and still more so when her aunt took away Adam Bede from the former, as not desirable reading at eleven years old.
— from Beechcroft at Rockstone by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

am now describing resembles almost exactly
The cut on a golf ball in such a stroke as I am now describing resembles almost exactly the off-break spin in cricket.
— from The Soul of Golf by P. A. (Percy Adolphus) Vaile

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