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calm engaging reasonableness Now you
Then she continued, in a voice in which persuasiveness was added to calm, engaging reasonableness: "Now you must get rid of all your conventional ideas, G.J. Because you're rather conventional.
— from The Pretty Lady by Arnold Bennett

CHARLES EDWARD RICH New York
A Voyage with Captain Dynamite A VOYAGE WITH CAPTAIN DYNAMITE BY CHARLES EDWARD RICH New York A. S. BARNES & COMPANY 1907 Copyright, 1907, by A. S. BARNES & COMPANY All rights reserved CONTENTS.
— from A Voyage with Captain Dynamite by Charles Edward Rich

could easily reach New York
[Pg 22] hence and could easily reach New York a day or two earlier than he had planned.
— from The Bachelors: A Novel by William Dana Orcutt

C Elbert Rhodes New York
(Odyssey) E. S. Shumway and Waldo Shumway, (Iliad) C. Elbert Rhodes] New York, 1911-12.
— from English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical Survey by Finley Melville Kendall Foster

cold embrace repel Nor yet
well, Doth not his cold embrace repel; Nor yet by western Eryx, where Gay Aphrodite high in air Beams gladness from her marble chair; Nor 'mong the mountains that enfold Panormos in her shell of gold, Found I my Cora: no reply Came to my call, my helpless cry, 440 Cora, my Cora!
— from The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas by Robert Bridges

can even reach New York
[200] Then too, by the lakes, Detroit can reach all of the American lake ports, and from Buffalo, through the Erie Canal, it can even reach New York.
— from Great Cities of the United States Historical, Descriptive, Commercial, Industrial by Stephen Elliott Kramer


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