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urged new fire into Philip
The thought urged new fire into Philip's blood.
— from Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by James Oliver Curwood

usual normal father is pleased
I have a notion that no usual, normal father is pleased at parting with his daughter.
— from Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad

understand nothing for I put
“There,” I says to myself, when I’d got that printed out careful, “if he can’t make that out, he can’t understand nothing;” for, I put it to you, what could I have said clearer, and yet made so as no one else could understand?
— from Midnight Webs by George Manville Fenn

understood nor found in perfection
The added projections at x x , in d , are called Cusps , and they are the very soul and life of the best northern Gothic; yet never thoroughly understood nor found in perfection, except in Italy, the northern builders working often, even in the best times, with the vulgar form at a .
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ruskin

unusual name for Italian people
Yes; now, Burt could possibly be Umberto, I don’t know, because Burt is an unusual name for Italian people.
— from Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

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