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delude unhappy mariners a regular siren
"Well, it seems to be his business in life now to delude unhappy mariners; a regular siren luring them to their doom.
— from No Man's Island by Herbert Strang

disfavour upon mountains and rugged scenes
Cynewulf's verse is essentially the verse of an agriculturist; it looks with disfavour upon mountains and rugged scenes, while its ideal is one of peaceful tillage.
— from Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen

decidedly ugly monstrous and rather stupid
Swag-bellied, short of wind; liable to rages, to utterances of a coarse nature; a decidedly ugly, monstrous and rather stupid kind of man.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 by Thomas Carlyle

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