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greatly exaggerated my merits and spread
Certainly, in his generous good nature and desire to rehabilitate the family, the chevalier greatly exaggerated my merits, and spread a report everywhere that I was an angel of sweetness and intelligence.
— from Mauprat by George Sand

grew even more mournful and sad
The wind grew even more mournful and sad as they trod the meadows of asphodel and the grey lilies of the underworld towards the marge of Styx.
— from The Adventures of Ulysses the Wanderer by Guy Thorne

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