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for really I can apply no other
SMITH, I cannot understand why Mrs. Smith, with her absurd figure—for really I can apply no other adjective to it—should wear that most absurdly tight dress.
— from Twenty-One Days in India, or, the Tour Of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B.; and, the Teapot Series by George Aberigh-Mackay

Fear River in Carolina at noon on
Third, that this man shall be on the sandbars at the entrance to the Cape Fear River in Carolina at noon on the 10th day of September in this year of grace 1718, ready to deliver the sum before-mentioned and to take in charge the boy, also before-mentioned.
— from The Black Buccaneer by Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader

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