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light a fire or rather to endure
He was removed from the best bedroom to one in which it was impossible to light a fire, or, rather, to endure it when it was 141 alight, because of an incurable smoky chimney.
— from John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 [of 2] by William Powell Frith

liquors and forgetful of respect to each
Into these places, nightly, thousands of men and women bent on shameful missions come and depart, inebriated by wines and liquors and forgetful of respect to each other.
— from The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World by Robert O. Harland

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