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brighten up greatly at this taking it
She would brighten up greatly at this, taking it for a compliment of the best sort.
— from The Seaboard Parish Volume 1 by George MacDonald

blocked up Genoa and threatened the inhabitants
The court of Vienna, inflamed at this event, blocked up Genoa, and threatened the inhabitants with the severest treatment, if they did not immediately surrender; but the Genoese, being supported by the French, made a vigorous resistance, without being intimidated by menaces; and Boufflers, and afterwards the Duke de Richelieu, were sent to command there.
— from Memoirs of the Marchioness of Pompadour (vol. 1 of 2) by Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, marquise de

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