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courtesy or discourtesy extended to their acquaintances
But it was she and Daniel who were giving the party, and even though Jennie and Sadie did keep house for them, she was of course the nominal mistress of her husband's home and responsible for the courtesy or discourtesy extended to their acquaintances; and she did not like the idea of being made to appear a petty snob in the eyes of the few people of New Munich for whose opinion of her she cared.
— from Her Husband's Purse by Helen Reimensnyder Martin

course of development even to those artists
We hope, too, by the judicious choice and careful execution of our figures, to give a fair idea of this course of development even to those artists who have neither time nor patience to follow our criticisms and descriptions.
— from A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles Chipiez

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