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and rotting leaves And never desert
Go tread upon the heaped and rotting leaves, And never desert the scent.”
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

and rotten life and next day
There it is exposed to the sickness and disease, the effluvia and vile exhalations of overcrowded and rotten life, and next day it is carted about again to be sold.
— from The People of the Abyss by Jack London

all right Lascelles and no doubt
"It's all right, Lascelles, and no doubt you mean well.
— from Sarita, the Carlist by Arthur W. Marchmont

a romantic look at night Dick
“Santa Brigida has a romantic look at night,” Dick remarked.
— from Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss

a regular life and no doubt
He leads a regular life, and no doubt his doctors are clever.
— from A Hungarian Nabob by Mór Jókai

all radical long and narrow decreasing
The leaves are all radical, long and narrow, decreasing in width towards the base, and either coarsely toothed or deeply cut into pointed lobes.
— from Field and Woodland Plants by William S. Furneaux


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