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private house outside Newcastle that evening
We found the bank manager at his private house, outside Newcastle, that evening.
— from Dead Men's Money by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

preferred hearing of Newmarket to elections
I always detested them, even when in Parliament; and when I lived a good deal at White's, preferred hearing of Newmarket to elections; for the former, being uttered in a language I did not understand, did not engage my attention; but as they talked of elections in English, I could not help knowing what they said.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

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