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cold and uncomfortable dawn appeared to affect
Leaning against a lamp-post, opposite Mr. Darcy's house, and gazing with ludicrous earnestness at one particular window of that mansion, was a gentleman, whom the cold and uncomfortable dawn appeared to affect but very little.
— from A Changed Heart: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

curious and unwilling dispersed and the apparatus
The concert was immediately broken up; the assembly, though curious and unwilling, dispersed; and the apparatus for dressing the wound, was speedily at hand:—but to no purpose.
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 2 of 5) by Fanny Burney

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