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patient and very little of value
One does not waste time when one packs under shell fire, and at the end of three-quarters of an hour there was not a patient and very little of value in the hospital.
— from A Surgeon in Belgium by Henry Sessions Souttar

probably a vulgar love of vituperation
In this indefinite longing there was probably a vulgar love of vituperation—the taint of her low-born ancestors.
— from From One Generation to Another by Henry Seton Merriman

Piedmont and Valley lands of Virginia
These conditions rendered possible the extension of a measure of aristocratic planter life in the course of time to the Piedmont and Valley lands of Virginia.
— from The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner

produces a very large octavo volume
He produces a very large octavo volume in double columns, Latin for five francs, and Greek and Latin for eight francs: the former he is about to raise to six francs.
— from Journal in France in 1845 and 1848 with Letters from Italy in 1847 Of Things and Persons Concerning the Church and Education by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

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