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called I say Captain Ross please
Just that was what he intended to say, and—— At this instant the Master of the House, in the treble one of his voices, called, "I say, Captain Ross, please—they're asking for you ."
— from The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck

comprobata in systema chronologiæ redigi posse
Ipse abstineo, probe persuasus, stemmata vera, historiæ fide comprobata, in systema chronologiæ redigi posse: at ore per sæcula tradita, a poetis reficta, sæpe mutata, prout fabula postulare videbatur, ab historiarum deinde conditoribus restituta, scilicet, brevi, qualia prostant stemmata—chronologiæ secundum annos distributæ vincula semper recusatura esse.”
— from History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote


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