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just about as large in New
I hadn't known that a hotel could be as big as the Waldorf-Astoria, though Mrs. Ess Kay says there are several just about as large in New York, and she has heard there are one or two in Chicago, but she thanks Heaven she doesn't know anything personally about that .
— from Lady Betty Across the Water by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

justify awe at least if not
There was something in the manner and bearing of this unexpected inmate which might justify awe at least, if not fear, when joined to the singular and mysterious mode in which she had made her appearance.
— from Peveril of the Peak by Walter Scott

just as a light is not
The ray of light is usually invisible, just as a light is not seen at mid-day, but in certain circumstances it is visible.
— from Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy: Volume 1 (of 3) by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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