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the expensive curtains had none of them escaped
The tables of rosewood and marble, and the expensive curtains had none of them escaped her notice, and in a mood which more common furniture would never have produced Madam Conway arose to meet Mrs. Warner, who received her politely, and then waited to hear her errand.
— from Maggie Miller: The Story of Old Hagar's Secret by Mary Jane Holmes

to external causes have no occasion to employ
Those who accept all distinctions as due to external causes have no occasion to employ any deep mental subtlety in classifying their acquaintances.
— from The Cow Puncher by Robert J. C. Stead

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