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
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
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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