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Guardy has concocted a story, and tells it with his blandest air to everybody; and everybody smiles, and bows, and listens, and nobody believes a word of it.
— from The Unseen Bridegroom; Or, Wedded For a Week by May Agnes Fleming
Both were experienced soldiers, as brave as lions and nearly as cruel as Pedrarias himself—being indeed worthy disciples of his school.
— from South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure by Cyrus Townsend Brady
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