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Dress up put up your
'Dress up, put up your arm!
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series by James Edmund Dunning

dimmed uncertain points up yonder
One could much more easily believe that all these hansoms with their jewelled eyes, these pretty, saucily frocked women with theirs, this busy glittering milky way of human life was the enduring, and those dimmed uncertain points up yonder but the reflections of human gas-lights.
— from Prose Fancies by Richard Le Gallienne

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