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at Paramé looked in the early sunlight
Much as he loved the old-world town, Heathcote had no intention of loitering there on this September morning, lovely as the bay and the rocks and the smiling colony of white-walled villas yonder at Paramé looked in the early sunlight.
— from Wyllard's Weird: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

a passage leading into the east side
The entrance to this chamber may have been through a trap-door, or by a passage leading into the east side.
— from The Cathedral Church of Oxford A description of its fabric and a brief history of the Episcopal see by Percy Dearmer

a party later in the evening she
Her mind was so full of the man that when she joined her mother at a party later in the evening, she had an absurd anticipation that everybody would talk to her about him.
— from Quisanté by Anthony Hope

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