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can help a man in such a
It is only God who can help a man in such a case.”
— from Charlie to the Rescue by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Cluniac house at Montacute in Somerset and
His son, Count William, founded the Cluniac house at Montacute in Somerset, and to it he is said to have given the church of St. Crantock.
— from The Celtic Christianity of Cornwall: Divers Sketches and Studies by Thomas Taylor

could help a man in such an
He took her little hand and held it between his own, which were trembling with all this strain—her little tender helpless woman's hand, formed only for soft occupations and softer caresses; it was not a hand which could help a man in such an emergency; it was without any grasp in it to take hold upon him, or force of love to part—a clinging impotent hand, such as holds down, but cannot raise up.
— from The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

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