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It is a most elaborate work, groined with an eight-sided vault; its windows and arches full of rich mouldings, and enriched by ball flowers and some of the other devices commonly seen in our own work of the same age.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street
We reached the encampment after dark, found a comfortable hut prepared for our reception, made an excellent supper, and slept soundly though it snowed hard the whole night.
— from The Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin
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