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rude about it Not exactly rude
"Is he rude about it?" "Not exactly rude, but he is all the more annoying because he is so polite, and I always feel that he wants something different."
— from The Unruly Sprite: A Partial Fairy Tale by Henry Van Dyke

Rome as in New England religion
In Rome, as in New England, religion was linked closely with all the forms of government; and it was a religion which appealed more strongly to men's sense of duty and to their fears, than to their softer feelings.
— from William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck

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