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matters enough no doubt in society
As he had said, there was probably nothing at all extraordinary in the substance of the narrative itself: a wealthy Englishman’s passion for a French dancer, and her treachery to him, were every-day matters enough, no doubt, in society; but there was something decidedly strange in the paroxysm of emotion which had suddenly seized him when he was in the act of expressing the present contentment of his mood, and his newly revived pleasure in the old hall and its environs.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

much exaggerated nor do I see
Captain de L’Or gave Ibrahim’s losses in five days at 10,000 men; this was considered by the English officers very much exaggerated, nor do I see how Ibrahim and Souliman, who were both good generals, could have met with such a loss, unpursued as they were by a regular army, and having nearly 10,000 cavalry to 188 cover their retreat and protect them from the few irregulars that followed them, and who, if they did not behave better than those Colonel Napier had under his command [74] , would never have come within sight of them, and it is more than probable, picked up the stragglers only.
— from The War in Syria, Volume 2 (of 2) by Charles Napier

my eyes nor did I strive
There was contempt in my eyes, nor did I strive to disguise it.
— from Beyond the Frontier: A Romance of Early Days in the Middle West by Randall Parrish


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