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she ever looks coldly on me
They say she loves him parlously, and he her; and she ever looks coldly on me.
— from Wager of Battle: A Tale of Saxon Slavery in Sherwood Forest by Henry William Herbert

send either Lucius Cincius or Marcus
With the rest of the ships, orders were given that Marcus Valerius Laevinus should either pass over himself into Africa to ravage the country, or send either Lucius Cincius or Marcus Valerius Messala.
— from The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livy

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