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English language is spoken or read
"But the effort made in the forty-eight pages of the redoubtable pamphlet, 'What then does Dr. Newman Mean?'—the production of a bold, unscrupulous man, with a coarse mind, and regardless of inflicting pain on [Pg 379] the feelings of another, has failed,—marvellously failed,—and he himself is now exhibited not only in our fatherland, but even at the Antipodes, in fact wherever the English language is spoken or read, as a shallow pretender, one quite incompetent to treat of matters of such undying interest as those he presumed to interfere with.
— from Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

early lost in some other race
An unknown people, whose identity was early lost in some other race.
— from Bible Atlas: A Manual of Biblical Geography and History by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

English language is spoken or read
For these [Pg 430] results they will be remembered and honored so long as the English language is spoken or read among men.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

Enragèd love is senseless of remorse
Know, Syphax has no knees, his eyes no tears; Enragèd love is senseless of remorse.
— from The Works of John Marston. Volume 2 by John Marston


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