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and should prove especially captivating to such
The middle stanza rises to great lyric heights, and should prove especially captivating to such discriminating critics of lyricism as our colleague Mr. Kleiner.
— from Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

area scarcely produced enough crops to sustain
He sent a letter to the Viceroy to that effect, further advising that the Spanish settlers of the area scarcely produced enough crops to sustain themselves and their families.
— from No Man's Land: A History of El Camino Real by Louis Raphael Nardini


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