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be recorded in the accounts relating to
No one is answerable for the murder of this sheep but myself, as I hereby confess that I killed it with my own hand, and afterwards held a coroner's inquest on the body, directing a verdict of "Visitation of Providence" to be recorded in the accounts relating to the flock.
— from The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor

British reserve in the almost resentful tone
M. Châtelard pondered; was there not certainly something more than British reserve in the almost resentful tone—some deep-lying grudge that it would be piquant to find out?
— from Rose of the World by Egerton Castle

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