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with his enormous erudition could have
Gibbon, with his enormous erudition, could have presented to us all the details of Rome's decline as they really were—-he has given us instead a travesty of them distorted by his own devilish hatred of Christianity.
— from John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. (1847-1900), a Memoir by Hunter Blair, David Oswald, Sir

wife his essentially English children his
His essentially English wife; his essentially English children; his whiskers, his politics, his umbrella, his pew at church, his plum pudding, his Times newspaper, all answered for him (he was accustomed to say) as an inbred member of the glorious nation that rejoices in hunting the fox, and believes in innumerable pills.
— from The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story by Wilkie Collins

with heart exulting each crown His
I view with heart exulting each crown His head adorns; But, oh, He looks most lovely, wearing His crown of thorns .
— from The Lord's Coming. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. II by Charles Henry Mackintosh

when his eager embrace caught her
She did not blush under his kisses: she shut her eyes and held her breath when his eager embrace caught her out of resistance.
— from The Unknown Sea by Clemence Housman

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