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and rutty road is not good
Truly "a very rough and rutty road" is not good for tyres, or car, but I could have walked it: why this did not occur to me at the time now passes my comprehension; it must have been a temporary lapse of sanity.
— from A Leisurely Tour in England by James John Hissey

a revolutionary rising in Naples gave
On August 25, the performance, at the Brussels Opera House, of Auber's "La Muette di Portici," with its representation of a revolutionary rising in Naples, gave the signal for revolt.
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson

and really relevant information not given
Does the time spent in writing up notes justify itself by fixing in the child's mind new and really relevant information not given in the text?
— from The Teaching of History by E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell


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