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the highly unpopular Royal Sitting of
The name and form of this Séance Royale was perhaps not well chosen, as being too nearly allied to those of a Bed of Justice, in which the King was accustomed to exercise imperative authority over the Parliament; and the proceeding was calculated to awaken recollection of the highly unpopular Royal Sitting of the 19th November, 1787, the displacing of Necker, and the banishment of the Duke of Orleans.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume I. by Walter Scott

to his unsatisfactory rambling style of
She grew impatient at last in her pretty, imperious way, and put a stop to his unsatisfactory rambling style of talk, by asking him a few downright questions.
— from Wee Wifie by Rosa Nouchette Carey


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