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The paint-pot could furnish the little maid with a new dress every day, if she desired it—red, [142] white, or even black!
— from The Birth of the Nation, Jamestown, 1607 by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
Henry displays the odd hit- and -miss quality which seems to have attached itself to Cumberland everywhere, whether as novelist, dramatist, essayist, diplomatist, poet, or anything else.
— from The English Novel by George Saintsbury
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