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cold or raw day and the eyes
She wears scarlet on a cold or raw day, and the eyes of the men light up when they see her.
— from From a Girl's Point of View by Lilian Bell

continuance of religious disabilities and the excessive
I may select as examples, from comparatively recent legal history, the continuance of religious disabilities and the excessive punishment of ordinary or even trivial crimes; and, perhaps, I may venture to add, as a possible reform in the future now largely demanded by popular sentiment, some considerable modifications of the laws regulating the transfer of and the succession to landed property.
— from Progressive Morality: An Essay in Ethics by Thomas Fowler

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