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now except when first in every
His fleet dogs are never happy now except when first in every crowd.
— from Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land by Egerton Ryerson Young

new edible way finer in every
Now quite a while ago, our head chemist Major Madison B. Jefferson invented a new edible way, finer in every essential than the oyster; but the consumers wouldn't have it: they shied at it, and declared it wasn't wholesome; and we had the whole stock on our hands, and had to vat it down again, and recolour it, and make tomatoes of it.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 05, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

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