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and virginity and timidity and reticence and

The hoyden contains an element of freshness and virginity and timidity and reticence and anything else you like which makes her really an object worthy of interest.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

and vigorous as those at Reims Amiens

The cathedrals of southern France are manifestly not as lively and vigorous as those at Reims, Amiens, or Rouen; none have the splendour and vast extent of old glass as at Chartres, and none of the smaller examples equal the symmetry and delicacy of those at Noyon or Senlis.
— from The Cathedrals of Southern France by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

at Varades and the ancestral records are

The title is hereditary; the family estate is situated at Varades; and the ancestral records are kept in the archives of the ancient city of Rennes in Brittany.
— from Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. by William F. Howe

and vigilant agents that at Rome are

He now employed the police, and those most active and vigilant agents that at Rome are willing to undertake all enterprises;—he could not but feel assured of discovering her.
— from Godolphin, Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

and vegetables and trees and roses all

It is a beautifully wild garden: grass and vegetables and trees and roses all grow in a jungle together.
— from An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Laurence Housman

are vouchsafed alike to all Reason and

Gifts nobler are vouchsafed alike to all; Reason, and, with that reason, smiles and tears; Imagination, freedom in the will; Conscience to guide and check; and death to be [361] 225 Foretasted, immortality conceived By all,—a blissful immortality, To them whose holiness on earth shall make The Spirit capable of heaven, assured.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 5 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

a vain augury the attorney read again

The gules and gold were reflected on the young man's head, and with a vain augury, the attorney read again the solemn words from Holy Writ, 'Princeps induetur maerore.'
— from Wylder's Hand by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

a vineyard and then are run along

Usually No. 10 galvanized wires are securely fastened to the tops of the boundary posts on the four sides of a vineyard and then are run along and securely fastened on the tops of the inside post down each row in both directions as governor wires.
— from Manual of American Grape-Growing by U. P. Hedrick

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