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matter of course he retired and saw
As a matter of course he retired, and saw and heard no more.
— from An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam

mass of charred human remains and scorched
Gunpowder would have left in the hiding-place of the Mongols a tangled mass of charred human remains and scorched cowhide: only an incendiary could have destroyed its contents so that “not a vestige remained.”
— from Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and Progress by H. W. L. (Henry William Lovett) Hime

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