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rather enjoyed the thing especially Ruperta
When their gentle bosoms got over their agitation, they rather enjoyed the thing, especially Ruperta: she detested Reginald for his character, and for having insulted her father.
— from A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade

Resident Engineer to the Egyptian Railway
In 1862 Mr. Henry Rouse, the Chief Resident Engineer to the Egyptian Railway, in the course of a report upon the use of these sleepers, says, “I may assert with unerring confidence, that after ten years’ use of them, had a system of permanent way to be again selected for adoption on the fine
— from Rambles on Railways by Roney, Cusack P., Sir

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