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shrewd to risk everything by extravagant
Schneider was too shrewd to risk everything by extravagant demands all at once.
— from Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce

starts to receive energy because energy
It only takes a small fraction of a second before the antenna at the receiving station starts to receive energy, because energy travels at the rate of 186,000 miles a second.
— from Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills

seemed to regard every boisterous exhibition
He never laughed when anything struck him as being funny; in fact, he seemed to regard every boisterous exhibition of feeling as undignified.
— from The Modern Vikings: Stories of Life and Sport in the Norseland by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

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