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unwonted nervousness becoming evident among the
About ten o'clock, a certain unwonted nervousness becoming evident among the Germans, the two English trenches of the first line let off a bouquet of rockets.
— from The Square Jaw by Henry Ruffin

used nothing but English and the
Irish speaking, used nothing but English, and the National Schools, also using nothing but English, imposed English culture from the first on the children and set the feet of the Nation more and more steadily Londonwards.
— from Sinn Fein: An Illumination by P. S. (Patrick Sarsfield) O'Hegarty

us now behold even at this
Consider what the covetousness, the folly, the ambition of the heart work among us now; behold even at this hour, what multitudes are there among us who are scoffers, and deniers, and mockers of the Lord who bought them!
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 4, October 1849 by Various

upon nothing but enemies among the
They had lost their allies, and could reckon upon nothing but enemies among the Mussulmans.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 2 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

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