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summer evening remained graven in
The night following that red summer evening remained graven in Lilly's memory hour by hour.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

social existence rendering government impossible
It must be owned, there never was in Nature such a Form of Government before; such a mode of social existence, rendering "government" impossible for some generations past.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Thomas Carlyle

She early read great Ilium
Forlorn, She early read great Ilium's doom, and tried, Clear-eyed, clear-voiced, her countrymen to warn.
— from Memorial Day, and Other Verse (Original and Translated) by Helen Leah Reed

Shirley Esq r Goveinr in
Shirley Esq r : Goveinr in & over y e
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 by Various

Sure enough returned grandmother it
"Sure enough," returned grandmother, "it does look as if the unenlightened of its own continent is America's first duty."
— from The Yellow Pearl: A Story of the East and the West by Adeline M. (Adeline Margaret) Teskey

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