"And she has plenty of lucre, eh, George?
— from Wyllard's Weird: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
No; their only resource was to work away at some huge piece of landscape embroidery, which, begun in childhood, occupied a whole life, and transmitted a considerable labour of background and foliage to the next generation.
— from Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever
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