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neither at neck or bosom or throat
Alone she went in that coach excepting one companion, a lady dressed as quietly and simply as could be any lady in the land, there being neither at neck or bosom or throat, or in her hair, any single trinket to be seen.
— from Across the Salt Seas: A Romance of the War of Succession by John Bloundelle-Burton

name and nominally on behalf of the
The revenue was still to be collected in the name, and nominally on behalf of the native prince.
— from Rulers of India: Lord Clive by G. B. (George Bruce) Malleson

night and no one brooded over that
Yet, in spite of that, the idea had gained ground, that the Lady Ursula Glynde could, an she would, throw some light on the mystery which surrounded the events of that terrible night, and no one brooded over that idea more determinedly than did Mary Tudor.
— from The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

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