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Diamond and ruby rings are not
Diamond and ruby rings are not productions that are run through a machine and sold by the gross, "subject."
— from A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" by Thomas Anderton

discreetly along Redmon road and not
Not walking discreetly along Redmon road, and not alone.
— from A Changed Heart: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

ditty about roses rivulets and nightingales
He is addicted to moonlight; the sight of a wooden hut in a sunny nook of the Hudson sets him dreaming about love in a cottage, and quoting Tom Moore with indifferent orthography; in his moments of melancholy he loves to muse by the river-side, and repeat to himself a certain ditty about roses, rivulets, and nightingales, which he picked up in Canada.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 427, May, 1851 by Various

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