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enormities nothing enrages my aunt so
But of all the whole catalogue of enormities, nothing enrages my aunt so much as my intended marriage with Mrs Lovell's sister Edith: this will hardly take place till we arrive in America; it rouses the whole army of prejudices in my aunt's breast.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 425, March, 1851 by Various

Every new Emperor makes a saint
Every new Emperor makes a saint; as in Turkey every new Sultan builds a mosque; and Seraphim is fixed upon by the public voice as the man whom Alexander the Third will have to make a saint.
— from Free Russia by William Hepworth Dixon

Eccellenza non e morta and strikes
Savoyard shakes his head vehemently.—"No—no, Eccellenza, non e morta!" and strikes up a lively air on the slandered instrument.
— from The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 04 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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