If history were not entitled to insist that the earnest reader should accompany her through good and evil days, through landscapes of winter as well as of spring, the historian might be tempted to shun the cheerless task of tracing the manifold and yet monotonous turns of this struggle between superior power and utter weakness, both in the Spanish provinces already annexed to the Roman empire and in the African, Hellenic, and Asiatic territories which were still treated as clients of Rome. — from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen
the idea that the examination revealed something
The minutes of the examination were unpublished till recent years, and these furtive tactics gravely injured the memory of Cervantes, for they suggested the idea that the examination revealed something to his discredit. — from Chapters on Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
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spelled out by the first letters of consecutive words.
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