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have a scandal here in my studio
he said, roughly—"I will not have a scandal here in my studio!
— from Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Marie Corelli

her and said Here is my son
The old toad bowed low in the water before her, and said: ‘Here is my son; you shall marry him, and live in great magnificence down under the marsh.’
— from The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

He also shows how inaccurate McClung s
He also shows how inaccurate McClung's "sketches" are—for McClung was like a host of other early western annalists, preserving some valuable facts in a good deal of rubbish, and having very little appreciation indeed of the necessity of so much as approximate accuracy.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt

he attained such heights in mythological subjects
Perhaps he was least successful in allegorical subjects, and in the portraits of women, but, if this be so, his failure is merely relative, he attained such heights in mythological subjects and men's portraits, that the other work is not so good by comparison.
— from Titian by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan

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