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Ernestine now first I see how
Ah, Ernestine, now first I see how noble you are, and what wrong my father did you."
— from Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern

Every noble family in Spain had
Every noble family in Spain had sent one or other of its sons to fight for Christ and Our Lady.
— from English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by James Anthony Froude

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