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There was eke every noisome spice
The aire of the place so attempre was, That never was ther grevance of hot ne cold, There was eke every noisome spice and gras, Ne
— from What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

this way every evening No she
Does she go traipsin' off this way every evening?" "No, she seems to be here pretty regular most o' the time.
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells

the whole ethereal episode now seem
He was forced to reassure himself again by the jewel and the rose that she had really come to him, so dream-like did the whole ethereal episode now seem.
— from Victor Ollnee's Discipline by Hamlin Garland

that we ever even noticed such
I don't believe that we ever even noticed such a town in it as Marblehead; and yet here I am, in that very place; and though I love our noble State as well as ever, I am beginning to think that there are some other places in the world fit to live in.
— from Hurrah for New England! Or, The Virginia Boy's Vacation by Cornelia L. (Cornelia Louisa) Tuthill

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