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not understand the circumstance and still explaining
Evelyn could not understand the circumstance and, still explaining the odds, he told the coachman that they would not wait for the last race.
— from Evelyn Innes by George Moore

not understand the change and sought enlightenment
Being fair and square himself, he could not understand the change and sought enlightenment of his more imaginative and suspicious friend.
— from Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up; Or, Bar-20 by Clarence Edward Mulford

now undergoing the careful and skilful examination
It is now undergoing the careful and skilful examination which the character of the accomplished assistants of Mrs. Lewis ensures, and it is impossible at present to anticipate the verdict upon it which those scholars may recommend, and which may be finally adopted by the learned world at large.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

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