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such pleasures as Richard Swiveller are

But the lives of gentlemen devoted to such pleasures as Richard Swiveller, are extremely precarious.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

side Pride and Revenge spoke as

On the other side, Pride and Revenge spoke as loudly against him.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

so polite and respectful struck a

This harsh letter, coming as it did from a man generally so polite and respectful, struck a mortal blow at the pride of Villefort.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

silver placed All ready set as

Apart from all, the Bráhmans there, Thousands on thousands, took their share Of various dainties sweet to taste, On plates of gold and silver placed, All ready set, as, when they willed, The twice-born men their places filled.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

station presented a report strongly adverse

The Commissioners to whom was referred the question of the selection 252.png 418 of an Irish port for a transatlantic packet station, presented a report strongly adverse to the project.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

Such people are rarely seen as

Such people are rarely seen as far up in the city as this.
— from The Six River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence; Or, The Lost Channel by Harry Gordon

so pleasantly and romantically situated as

Rugged mountains and a hard climate produce people of a similar severity of type, and, on the other hand, one naturally looks for poetry and music in a people so pleasantly and romantically situated as are the Italians.
— from Peeps at Many Lands: Burma by R. Talbot (Robert Talbot) Kelly

Spanish Portuguese and Russian summaries are

While the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian summaries are founded on a large series of works in criminal anthropology, in England there is absolutely no centre for the scientific study of criminality.
— from The Criminal by Havelock Ellis

some prudent and rather stringent advice

Meanwhile, as Mrs. Colwood knew, Diana had been engaged in correspondence with her solicitors, who had been giving her some prudent and rather stringent advice on the subject of income and expenditure.
— from The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

some people as rather stilted and

Then again, specially if the play be by Euripides, it ends not with a “curtain,” not with a great decisive moment, but with the appearance of a god who says a few lines of either exhortation or consolation or reconciliation, which, after the strain and stress of the action itself, strikes some people as rather stilted and formal, or as rather flat and somehow unsatisfying.
— from Ancient Art and Ritual by Jane Ellen Harrison

Some people are religious some are

Some people are religious, some are not religious, while he— "Wait," he said to himself.
— from The Little Angel, and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev

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