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new each of great extent and
They were two complete houses in short, the old one and the new, each of great extent and each very fine in its way.
— from A London Life, and Other Tales by Henry James

Nowell elect opened great eyes and
Unprepared as yet to contemplate the pleasures of paternity, Master Cradock Nowell elect opened great eyes and great mouth, in the untutored wrath of hunger; while from the other cot arose a lusty yell, as of one already visited by the injustice of the world.
— from Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest. Vol. 1 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

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