In one apartment, the fittings for the series of "Tableaux" which had been proposed, remained half completed: the dresses that were to have been worn, lay scattered on the floor; the carpenter who had come to proceed with his work, gathered up his tools in ominous silence, and departed as quickly as he could. — from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various
street and dressed as quick as he
“He heard him as he came along the street, and dressed as quick as he could, and ran up and got him. — from The Flirt by Booth Tarkington
subtleties and digressions all quotations all humor
By adding some twaddle about the senses, by leaving out all polemics and history, all bibliography and experimental details, all metaphysical subtleties and digressions, all quotations, all humor and pathos, all interest in short, and by blackening the tops of all the paragraphs, I think I have produced a tome of pedagogic classic which will enrich both you and me, if not the student's mind. — from The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 by William James
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spelled out by the first letters of consecutive words.
Why would you care to know such a thing? It's not entirely clear to us, either, but
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