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certain every puzzle has a solution
It is a great book of puzzles, whilst our confidence in the man's veracity is such that we feel certain every puzzle has a solution.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

century English poet has a stronger
No twentieth century English poet has a stronger personality than William Watson.
— from The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century by William Lyon Phelps

couch enjoying poor health as she
Once in a long while, and then, as the weeks passed, more frequently, there would come a day in which she did not get down further than the little sitting-room, but was established amid pillows on the couch, "enjoying poor health," as she playfully phrased it.
— from Ester Ried by Pansy

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