Oh, how our good gentleman enjoyed the delivery of this speech, especially when he had thought of some one to call his Lady!
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Receptions were given by President Johnson, Speaker Colfax, Chief Justice Chase, Governor Morgan, Admiral Dalhgren, and other dignitaries, but those at the house of General Grant eclipsed them all.
— from Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore
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