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caught or dead in a keeper
I never see a beast or a bird caught or dead in a keeper's trap but that I think to myself that after all, if we ourselves are caught in the end between the grinning jaws of anarchy, it will really be only partial justice on our injustice.
— from A House-Party, Don Gesualdo, and A Rainy June by Ouida

conception of duets is a kind
(The Angelic conception of duets is a kind of conversation upon violins.)
— from The Wonderful Visit by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

characteristic of drama is a kind
Another characteristic of drama is a kind of consistency between the beginning and the end, a kind of logical order in which it moves, and this is illustrated in the gospels by the fact which must always be borne in mind, that the task is one of supreme difficulty.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, April 1884, No. 7 by Chautauqua Institution

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