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child ever refused to be comforted
What little child ever refused to be comforted by that glorious sense of being seized strongly and swung upward?
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Christian era referred to by Coleridge
[We have reason to believe that the idea was suggested to Mr. Snow neither from Bacon's Sylva , nor from any of our English poets, but from a Greek writer after the Christian era, referred to by Coleridge in his Table Talk .] Miscellaneous.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

could even recognize the black covering
I could even recognize the black covering of the shakos as the light fell on them.
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

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