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that Cleo had ever known a

When they met again at an early breakfast, while old Dublin was waking up, no one would suspect from her smiling face and dancing blue eyes that Cleo had ever known a serious sorrow, or that a canker lodged close to her gentle heart.
— from Miss Fairfax of Virginia: A Romance of Love and Adventure Under the Palmettos by St. George Rathborne

the country had ever known and

Not a few of the voters in the East, also cordially interested in any plan that seemed to them promising and equitable for building up the American commercial marine, took the ground that it was an absurdity to build up barriers against foreign trade by enacting a tariff bill, such as the Dingley measure, with higher duties than the country had ever known, and then to attempt to overcome that barrier by means of bounty measures, which must themselves constitute a fresh form of taxation on the general public.
— from The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson

that Cleveland had ever known and

But before Tom L. Johnson died he was Mayor of the city; something more; he was the best liked and the best hated man that Cleveland had ever known; and he was better liked than he was hated.
— from The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford

the country has ever known and

The next decade was to see the bitterest rate wars that the country has ever known; and the Erie, with its exceptional gauge and single track, was to compete with rivals of normal gauge, who were adding third and fourth tracks to the two which they already possessed.
— from Railroad Reorganization by Stuart Daggett

this country has ever known and

It may lead to the formation of the strongest administration this country has ever known, and at a time when there should be no risk.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon

the children had ever known and

It was one of the saddest days the children had ever known, and they all went to bed with sorely troubled little hearts.
— from Hoodie by Mrs. Molesworth

the cousins had ever known a

The squire's wife had died within a year of his daughter's birth, so that practically neither of the cousins had ever known a mother's care.
— from The Pit Town Coronet: A Family Mystery, Volume 1 (of 3) by C. J. (Charles James) Wills

this country has ever known and

It is the oldest and most powerful political society this country has ever known, and possibly ever will know.
— from The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10 by William Cowper Brann

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