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until now almost miraculously it seemed
True, death seemed certain in the tower, but it had been kept at bay until now almost miraculously, it seemed to him, and a faith in Captain Ellerey had grown up in him.
— from Princess Maritza by Percy James Brebner

uncle Not a message I said
[Pg 92] "To my uncle." "Not a message," I said, correcting her.
— from The Place of Dragons: A Mystery by William Le Queux

unknowne name and Muse in swathing
That the verses of so young a man should be accepted, and coupled with those of the thunder-girt Chapman, was to him a great and unexpected honour; and the youth expresses prettily his pride in being published by his "lov'd friend" in such distinguished literary company,— Can my approovement, sir, be worth your thankes, Whose unknowne name, and Muse in swathing clowtes, Is not yet growne to strength, among these rankes To have a roome?
— from Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley

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