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beginnings of responsible government as they are
In the matter of race and religion, too, its position is better than that of the countries mentioned, yet the authors of the Report do not propose to concede to it even such beginnings of responsible government as they are prepared to grant to the other provinces of India.
— from The Political Future of India by Lala Lajpat Rai

Belsaye on right good authority that a
"'Tis told in Belsaye on right good authority that a certain vile knave, a lewd, seditious rogue hight Beltane that was aforetime a charcoal-burner and thereafter a burner of gibbets—as witness my lord Duke's tall, great and goodly gallows—that was beside a prison breaker and known traitor, hath been taken by the doughty Sir Pertolepe, lord Warden of the Marches, and by him very properly roasted and burned to death within his great Keep of Garthlaxton."
— from Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol

brands Oh Richmond Gems and Turkish and
“What are some other brands?” “Oh, Richmond Gems, and Turkish, and Cambridge.
— from Beyond the City by Arthur Conan Doyle

blue or red ground and they are
The cathedral is not without them, but they are confined severely to the neat oval tablet with a gilt frame and gold lettering on a blue or red ground, and they are disposed upon the walls or over the arches in austere devices.
— from A Spring Walk in Provence by Archibald Marshall


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