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any purpose such as creation
You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and research.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

and proceeded steadily and complacently
I arose, as I thought, a new man, and proceeded steadily and complacently on my unknown way.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

are preserved such as connexion
The original spellings of words are preserved, such as "connexion" for "connection," "labour" for "labor," etc.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

a powerful spur and could
but do you forget that the Nautilus is armed with a powerful spur, and could we not send it diagonally against these fields of ice, which would open at the shocks.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

and persons smarter and cleaner
As I watched them drawn up, or careering round us during the welcome, they appeared to present a different type from that of my first friends, being generally shorter, though as muscular, and even apparently more broadly built, with complexions lighter, and their dress and persons smarter and cleaner.
— from At Home with the Patagonians A Year's Wanderings over Untrodden Ground from the Straits of Magellan to the Rio Negro by George C. Musters


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