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was highly excited and talked of nothing
He was not drunk, as Marianne feared he would be; but he was highly excited and talked of nothing less than setting fire to the factory they had quitted the evening before.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 40, April, 1894 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

wherein he excelled all the other naked
He seemed quite to have forgotten that the “leading part” was an unerring nose for fish offal in the garbage heap, wherein he excelled all the other naked inmates of the “Capitole.”
— from The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross, Huntingdonshire. 1796 to 1816 by Thomas (Thomas James) Walker

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