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the other replied unconsciously lapsing into
Do you get that clearly?" " Si, señor ," the other replied, unconsciously lapsing into his native tongue.
— from The Iron Furrow by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd

too often renders us likewise indifferent
He was not ill enough to need or to desire nursing and tendance, but he was quite ill enough to be irritable, impatient, and selfish; for it is a strange fact, that the very condition which renders us the most dependent on our fellow-creatures too often renders us likewise indifferent to their comfort, in our absorbing consideration of our own.
— from The King's Highway by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

the others regard utterly lacking in
For that which the evolutionists set up as a god religious people regard as the mere creature of the true God; and what they set up as religion the others regard utterly lacking in all the essentials of religion.
— from The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various

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