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story unbesmirched by the love element
Here is a story unbesmirched by the love element, exceedingly plausible and interestingly narrated.
— from Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various

something underhand by the lynx eyes
Clasping each other's hands, and panting with excitement, they fled across the road to the gates of Ellsworth, without perceiving that they were detected in something underhand by the lynx eyes of a suspicious watcher.
— from Dainty's Cruel Rivals; Or, The Fatal Birthday by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

show us better than long essays
But a picture of this pair of twin brothers will show us better than long essays how much of the total phenomenon of modern Anarchism is a product of Western hyper-philosophy, and how much is an inheritance of Russian Nihilism.
— from Anarchism: A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory by E. V. (Ernst Viktor) Zenker


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