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dim outline of Mount Elgon rose
Off to the left, a hundred miles away, the dim outline of Mount Elgon rose in easy slopes from the horizon.
— from In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon

drama of our mortal existence reduced
The actual drama of our mortal existence, reduced to the simplest terms, is enough to occupy their consciousness and their passion.
— from Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys

divulges only one more esoteric riddle
For it is only on the surface or dead-letter of his Revelation that it appears that God is a Quaternary, to wit, “the Ineffable, the Silence, the Father, and Truth,” since in reality it is quite erroneous, and divulges only one more esoteric riddle.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

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