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drama and novels cannot exist side
The answer is simply that there seems no room for good drama and good fiction at the same time in literature; drama and novels cannot exist side by side, and the novel had to wait for the decadence of the drama before it could appear and triumph.
— from English Literature: Modern by G. H. (George Herbert) Mair

do and no cook ever stands
so's we wouldn't have to go out and eat, which Ma certainly loves to do and no cook ever stands it for more than a week and the current cook's week was up that morning before we went downtown.
— from Believe You Me! by Nina Wilcox Putnam

differently and none can express succinctly
When many people perceive the same or any cognate facts, they agree upon a word as symbol; and hence we have such words as tree , star , love , honour , or death ; hence also we have this word right , which, like the others, we all understand, most of us understand differently, and none can express succinctly otherwise.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 16 by Robert Louis Stevenson

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