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stopped and reddening with a newborn sense
“I think, sir,” said Rupert, “that allowin'—for onct—that Johnny ain't lying, mebbee it's Cressy McKinstry that Seth's huntin' round, and knowin' that she's always runnin' after you”—he stopped, and reddening with a newborn sense that his fatal truthfulness had led him into a glaring indelicacy towards the master, hurriedly added: “I mean, sir, that mebbee it's Uncle Ben
— from Cressy by Bret Harte

secular and religious which are naturally suggested
2. It embraces all the topics, both secular and religious, which are naturally suggested by the entire contents of the Bible.
— from The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller

so all round with a noble smack
And so all round, with a noble smack at Martha’s lips, Martha being nothing loth, and giving kiss for kiss with a good will that set us all laughing.
— from Ben o' Bill's, the Luddite: A Yorkshire Tale by D. F. E. Sykes

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