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resentments and this the rather as you
But be it your part, if I do, to sooth my angry passions, and to soften my resentments; and this the rather, as you know what an influence your advice has upon me; and as you must also know, that the freedoms you take with my friends, can have no other tendency, but to weaken the sense of my duty to them, without answering any good end to myself.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson

right angles to the river and you
How was he to know?" "Don't be a fool!" said the other, impatiently, "everybody knows the river runs north and south, and Canal Street runs out right angles to the river, and you turn to the right to go to the lake.
— from Kitty's Conquest by Charles King

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