"senga" hidden in books

such exciting news good and

"We have been so busy, and day after day has brought such exciting news, good and bad, that I haven't had time and composure to write in my diary for weeks.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

separations English neighbours greet and

Ralph and his English neighbour greeted with the austerity with which, after long separations, English neighbours greet, and Miss Stackpole rested her large intellectual gaze upon the sunburnt traveller.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

subtilior explicatio now generally adopted

x. 46, according to the 'subtilior explicatio' now generally adopted.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

stupid enough not getting any

Trading privacy for security is stupid enough; not getting any actual security in the bargain is even stupider.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

such essentially native goods as

Even the production of such essentially native goods as “ponchos” 3 has lapsed in favour of German and Italian wares.
— from The Argentine as a Market by Nowell Lake Watson

should either not go at

The canoes arrived on the following morning ere our breakfast was dispatched, and having stowed into them our fishing-gear and the requisites for a simple meal, we were about embarking when Don, who was directed to sit on the bottom of one, between the two Indian boys, entered a violent protest, and seating himself on a log instead, announced he should either not go at all, or should be allowed to pole and have sole charge of one end of the canoe.
— from Superior Fishing Or, the Striped Bass, Trout, and Black Bass of the Northern States by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

stable etc no grins and

Gwendolen so far spoke with a pouting sort of gravity; but suddenly she recovered some of her mischievousness, and her face broke into a smile as she added—“Indeed he has all the qualities that would make a husband tolerable—battlement, veranda, stable, etc., no grins and no glass in his eye.”
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

savage eyes now glazed and

[Pg 352] yellow tusks that forced up the black, leathery upper lip; the small, savage eyes now glazed and half-closed in death, all inspired me with reluctant curiosity and loathing.
— from The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian by Erckmann-Chatrian

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