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up nothing I have a glimpse
The grand wheel is in agitation that is to turn up my fortune; but round it rolls, and will turn up nothing, I have a glimpse of freedom, of becoming a gentleman at large, but I am put off from day to day.
— from The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb

upon Napoleon it had acquainted Great
Three months before the Austrian Government declared war upon Napoleon, it had acquainted Great Britain with its own plans, and urged the Cabinet to dispatch an English force to Northern Germany.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

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