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dangling unkempt looked like so
The gaunt soldiers, wearing red shirts and pointed hats topped with plumes, their legs bare, their beards full-grown, their faces tanned to copper colour, with their long black hair dangling unkempt, looked like so many Fra Diavolos.
— from A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick

daughter Ulla long lost sight
"Long had stout Pehrson Dahlsjoe been dead, his daughter Ulla long lost sight of and forgotten.
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

discredit upon Lord Lovat s
Burton, in his Life of Lord Lovat, London, 147, p. 104, throws discredit upon Lord Lovat's statement (Memoirs of Lord Lovat, London) of the antiquity
— from The Clan Fraser in Canada: Souvenir of the First Annual Gathering by Alexander Fraser

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