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so pleasing in every sense so
She was so pretty, so natural and good, so pleasing, in every sense so tolerable, I could never have supposed that ingratitude and impudence were to prove the chief features of her character."
— from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

slowest person I ever saw she
“He’s the slowest person I ever saw,” she murmured to Peggy.
— from The Secret of Casa Grande Mexican Mystery Stories #1 by Helen Randolph

storm phenomenon I ever saw surpassing
SNOW-BANNERS The most magnificent storm phenomenon I ever saw, surpassing in showy grandeur the most imposing effects of clouds, floods, or avalanches, was the peaks of the High Sierra, back of Yosemite Valley, decorated with snow-banners.
— from The Mountains of California by John Muir

smaller proportions in each successive stage
The moral issue dwindles to smaller proportions in each successive stage of this titanic duel between the titular representatives of State and Church; and from first to last the Papacy depended largely upon allies who were pursuing their own objects in the Church's name.
— from Medieval Europe by H. W. Carless (Henry William Carless) Davis

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