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so earnestly rivetted rises as if
the incantation at whose voice, apparently, the mysterious veil on which our eyes have been so long and so earnestly rivetted rises, as if by its own act, and reveals to us the mysteries of an enchanted world!
— from The Book of Christmas Descriptive of the Customs, Ceremonies, Traditions, Superstitions, Fun, Feeling, and Festivities of the Christmas Season by Thomas K. Hervey

some express robberies recently and I
I might of course employ an express, but there have been some express robberies recently, and I am ready to pay the extra expense required by a special messenger.
— from Mark Mason's Victory by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

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