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quite used to running into things
I'm quite used to running into things after dark."
— from The Tale of Freddie Firefly by Arthur Scott Bailey

quietly up the river in their
One evening, a man who was returning from another settlement, happened to discover a party of Indians, making their way very quietly up the river in their canoes, towards our little village.
— from Oscar The Boy Who Had His Own Way by Walter Aimwell

quite unable to recognize in the
In particular would the principle of heredity seem to argue against the reign of justice in the administration of human destinies, inasmuch as we find ourselves quite unable to recognize in the apportionment of pleasure and pain anything like a due ratio of merit.
— from Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller

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