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for lions are not good swimmers

So he splashed and scrambled his way to shore, clawing and spluttering and half choking, for lions are not good swimmers.
— from Nero, the Circus Lion: His Many Adventures by Richard Barnum

few Latin and no Greek scholars

At that time England had few Latin and no Greek scholars.
— from The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

feet lies a noble Gordon setter

On the porch, enjoying the faint breath of the evening air that comes gently over the fields of yellow grain, and through the orchard where the home-returning cows have stopped a moment, is a group consisting of a white-haired old man, who smokes his pipe in quiet comfort, a young man, and a beautiful young woman, at whose feet lies a noble Gordon setter.
— from The Spanish Galleon Being an account of a search for sunken treasure in the Caribbean Sea. by Charles Sumner Seeley

faith ladies are now getting so

I trust, not masquerading about Nantes dressed up as a page; though, by my faith, ladies are now getting so fond of men's clothes that they will soon leave us none to wear ourselves.
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

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