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Meeting at length with a respectable elderly
Meeting at length with a respectable elderly gentleman, Mr. P. inquired of him the way to the Cave of the Winds.
— from Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 22, August 27, 1870 by Various

mother abbess looked with a rueful eye
The mother abbess looked with a rueful eye upon the treasures of beauty and vestal virtue exposed to such imminent peril.
— from Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies by Washington Irving

mind at least will always resist every
They are the greatest guarantee that the independent mind, at least, will always resist every external and foreign force exercised over the human heart and head.
— from Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Various

me a little while ago replied Emily
Baron Cloten, on what you told me a little while ago," replied Emily.
— from Problematic Characters: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

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