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pictures a regular village or something
On referring to the map, reader, and finding this spot set down upon it, your imagination, of course, pictures a regular village, or something of that sort; but this is not the case.
— from The Oxonian in Thelemarken, volume 1 (of 2) or, Notes of travel in south-western Norway in the summers of 1856 and 1857. With glances at the legendary lore of that district. by Frederick Metcalfe

practical and readable volumes of sermons
"One of the most practical and readable volumes of sermons ever published.
— from Our Journey to the Hebrides by Joseph Pennell

Porter a resplendent vision of silk
It was Miss Porter, a resplendent vision of silk, laces, and Easter flowers—yet actually running, with something of her old dash and freedom, beside the wagon.
— from Found at Blazing Star by Bret Harte

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