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dashing expression looked like one who
The boy, more strongly formed, resembled his father more, and in his broad forehead and bold, dashing expression looked like one who would become one day a man of nerve and mettle.
— from Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

did eminent lawyers live openly with
Not only did eminent lawyers live openly with women who were not their wives, and with children whom the law declined to recognize as their offspring; but these women and children moved in good society, apparently indifferent to shame that brought upon them but few inconveniences.
— from A Book About Lawyers by John Cordy Jeaffreson

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