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and rouge vegetal is showing on

He is thinking how the Blanc de Perle and rouge vegetal is showing on her three-and-thirty-year-old face, and what his life would be like if he listened to his father and married her.
— from A Terrible Secret: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

any rolling vehicle is something of

The crossing of these gullies by any rolling vehicle is something of a business.
— from The Mercy of Allah by Hilaire Belloc

are really very insipid sort of

Your mere good kind of people are really very insipid sort of folks; and as such totally unsuited to my taste.
— from The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire

a real vitality in spite of

That "The Crayon" had a real vitality, in spite of its relative juvenility, was shown by the warm commendation it received from Lowell, Bryant, and other American literati, and from Ruskin, who wrote us occasional notes in reply to questions put by the readers, and warmly applauded its tone.
— from The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by William James Stillman

a readier vent in some of

In the city, the strong and bad passions of hate, envy, jealousy, and revenge, softened in action, as we have said, on finding a readier vent in some of the conditions of urban society, generally prove comparatively harmless.
— from Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

about Rainbow Valley in spite of

There was a certain wild woodsiness and solitude about Rainbow Valley, in spite of its nearness to the village, which endeared it to the children of Ingleside.
— from Rainbow Valley by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

a reflected view is seen of

But the edifice which seemed to us the architectural gem was the church of St. Ouen, dating, it was said, from A.D. 533, and in its present form from 1318; with its numerous windows of stained glass, its western portal and arcade, its sculptured vase, from the surface of the “holy” water contained in which a reflected view is seen of the roof through its entire extent, including the exquisite workmanship of its ornamentation.
— from Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army Gwalior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843; the Gold Coast of Africa, 1847-48; the Indian Mutiny, 1857-58; the expedition to China, 1860-61; the Siege of Paris, 1870-71; etc. by Gordon, Charles Alexander, Sir

a Roman villa in spite of

And yet a Roman villa, in spite of statues, ideas and atmosphere, affects me as of a scanter human and social portee , a shorter, thinner reverberation, than an old English country-house, round which experience seems piled so thick.
— from Italian Hours by Henry James

Any remaining variations in spelling or

Page 298 —Rear-Amiral amended to Rear-Admiral—"Rear-Admiral Milne, were hard beset ..." Page 311 —41 amended to 40—"attacks Bujēya, 40;" Page 312 —Francis amended to François—"Bourbon, François de, 106" Page 312 —Castelnuova amended to Castelnuovo—"Castelnuovo, 105" Page 314 —38 amended to 36—"Kheyr-ed-dīn Barbarossa, birth, 31 and n. , 36 n. ;" Page 314 —211 amended to 213—"Malta, Knights of, 76, 86 ff., 109, 118-123, 136-8, 141-159, 161, 177, 213;" Any remaining variations in spelling or unusual usage of language are as in the original text, for example, the author's use of annihilate in the past tense without the usual 'd' ending.
— from The Story of the Barbary Corsairs by Stanley Lane-Poole

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