We provided for her while you were still in prison and little likely ever to see your freedom.
— from The Baron's Sons: A Romance of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 by Mór Jókai
One would be glad to know that she met with some worthy partner, and lived long enough to see her little boys laughing over Lilliput, without any arrière pensée of a sad character about the great Dean!
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray
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