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as resembling my polity in the strength
This work, called 'The Wonder' of my Planet, was by our poets often spoken of as resembling my polity in the strength of its foundation, and in beauty, grandeur, and stability, as a work which, like my laws, they said had saved a world from destruction, and would endure for ever!
— from Another World: Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Benjamin Lumley

absolutely ruined my prospects in the service
This disaster has absolutely ruined my prospects in the service, so you might just as well have killed me outright.
— from A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood

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