They had decided that Lord Stuart, if Prince Polignac endeavoured to draw from him in conversation his opinion, should say he was directed to offer none.
— from A Political Diary, 1828-1830, Volume II by Ellenborough, Edward Law, Earl of
'War', he says, 'is politics par excellence ,' that is to say, politics at their purest and highest.
— from England and the War by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
Her family, I have always heard, was very good on both sides; she is poor, poor even to poverty, I fear now."
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
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