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strong unctuous moral uncharitable people
They are a strong, unctuous, moral, uncharitable people.
— from The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope

so unlike my usual proceedings
But so it was; and what would I not give could I obliterate from the page of my life this last action, so degrading to my character, and so unlike my usual proceedings!"
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller

silencing us Making us pale
The dead triumphant, and the quick cast down, The dead, unassuaged and angry, silencing us, Making us pale and bloodless, without resistance.
— from Some Imagist Poets, 1916: An Annual Anthology by Richard Aldington

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