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very intelligible and that I consider as
The style is terse and intelligible, Mr. Croftangry, very intelligible; and that I consider as the first point in every thing that is intended to be understood.
— from The Surgeon's Daughter by Walter Scott

view is all that I could ask
And the business, in a pecuniary point of view, is all that I could ask; only trying, sir—very trying.
— from St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson

very irregular and treacherous in character and
The rock was very irregular and treacherous in character, and the strata inclined so as to make the danger of slips a serious one.
— from The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment by Interborough Rapid Transit Company

very inferior are they in conception and
In coloring and drawing, these pictures cannot be surpassed; but how very inferior are they in conception, and especially the last!
— from Letters from a Landscape Painter by Charles Lanman

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