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shrinking hourly in vigor and numbers
Neither of the two armies had any courage to renew the struggle next morning, and each kept its way as best it could, both of them exhausted, both shrinking hourly in vigor and numbers.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 3 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

she had in view as no
"I replied that such a plan must insure Her Majesty the desired object she had in view, as no individual could be otherwise than happy under the immediate auspices of so benevolent and generous a Sovereign.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

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