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strolled through a more pretentious part of the

Now, whistling softly and complacently, he strolled through a more pretentious part of the town, halting occasionally to examine store windows.
— from Sam by E. J. Rath

smelling tasting and more peculiarly perhaps of that

It is the seat probably of the same senses as seeing , hearing , smelling , tasting —and more peculiarly perhaps of that of touch .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

Sayre takes a more pronounced position on this

Dr. Sayre takes a more pronounced position on this subject than the majority of those who have discussed his paper.
— from History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by P. C. (Peter Charles) Remondino

succumbed to another more powerful people of the

After a duration of about half a thousand years for the Elamite kingdom, and some seven hundred years since the time of Nimrod, the Chaldæan dynasty was overthrown and succeeded by an Arabian one, {127} that is, by a race of nomadic Shemites from the Arabian plains; and after two hundred and forty-five years they in their turn succumbed to another more powerful people of the same Semitic race, the Assyrians.
— from The Dawn of History: An Introduction to Pre-Historic Study by C. F. (Charles Francis) Keary

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