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richness of ornamentation the lavish expense the
The richness of ornamentation, the lavish expense, the flaunting wealth, all tell that the tastes of the voluptuous and artistic Semites were then as now.
— from The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

rafts one of them large enough to
They also built rafts, one of them large enough to carry artillery.
— from Chattanooga and Chickamauga Reprint of Gen. H. V. Boynton's letters to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, August, 1888. by Henry V. (Henry Van) Boynton

remain out on the lawn exposed to
My uncle was of opinion it would never do to remain out on the lawn, exposed to so great a superiority of force, and he took his measures accordingly.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

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