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fall as Roger Nowell entered Rough
The heavy rain, which began to fall as Roger Nowell entered Rough Lee, had now ceased, and the sun shone forth again brilliantly, making the garden look so fresh and beautiful that Richard proposed a stroll within it to Alizon.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

from a recent novel Even Royalty
See, for instance, Dickens’s sentence: “ Talent, Mr. Micawber has; capital, Mr. Micawber has not,” and the following passage from a recent novel: “Even Royalty had not quite their glow and glitter; Royalty you might see any day, driving, bowing, smiling.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen


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