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for us children he used
But in his picture-books, which he constantly made for us children, he used to draw a head very like that above your ladyship.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray

fix upon Charles Holland upon
If, as we have taken occasion to say, it be a positive fact, that a noble and a generous mind feels more acutely any heartlessness of this description from one on whom it has placed implicit confidence, than the most deliberate and wicked of injuries from absolute strangers, we can easily conceive that Henry Bannerworth was precisely the person to feel most acutely the conduct which all circumstances appeared to fix upon Charles Holland, upon whose faith, truth, and honour, he would have staked his very existence but a few short hours before.
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest


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