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scenes in early California life exceed
Many of the real scenes in early California life exceed in strangeness and interest any of the mere products of the brain of the novelist.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

saw in English country life especially
He was a close student of nature who painted what he saw in English country life, especially about Hampstead, and painted it with a knowledge and an artistic sensitiveness never surpassed in England.
— from A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke

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