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such alphabetic systems are known with absolute
It will be a true alphabet , the wonderful nature of which may be inferred from the fact that only two, or possibly three, such alphabetic systems are known with absolute certainty to have ever been independently evolved by human ingenuity [112] .
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

sorrow and shame and kissed with a
And she went down on her knees at the chancel entrance, bending down, it seemed, in an agony of devout sorrow and shame; and kissed with a gentle, lingering reverence the great slab with its five crosses, set in the ground at the destruction of the altar to show there was no sanctity attached to it.
— from By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson


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