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was a little too alert in relaxing
In truth Mr. Conway allowed too much to his scruples, and the Chancellor on the other hand was a little too alert in relaxing his former principles; the one leaning towards power, the other to popularity: yet I think even the Chancellor was too much addicted to the latter, to have risked it by any signal servility.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 2 (of 4) by Horace Walpole

was a long time after I reached
We started about the same time from the church, and it was a long time after I reached home ere you arrived.”
— from Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land by Egerton Ryerson Young

was a little twinge as I read
Apart from the pain I always suffer when I think of our poor people, there was a little twinge as I read between the lines of your letter.
— from The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir

with a long tail and I recognized
It was reddish brown with a long tail, and I recognized the female chewink.
— from Everyday Adventures by Samuel Scoville

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