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John Price of Lad lane
John Price of Lad-lane , Lond. , Haberd.
— from The Gentleman's Magazine, January 1731 Or, Trader's Monthly Intelligencer by Various

journalistic pile of lovely leaves
“I found him,” he began, in the words of the interviewer, “sitting upon a journalistic pile of lovely leaves of thought, which in the dawning of a new day glowed with a certain restrained flamboyance, as though the passion stored within those exotic pages gave itself willingly to the 'eclaircissement' of the situation, and of his lineaments on which suffering had already set their stamp.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy


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