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was in no state to enter a decent
It took him a good hour to get the jam and the flour out of his hair and whiskers, and as Mrs. Hoskins said that he was in no state to enter a decent bedroom, and made him wash at the pump in the back yard, he found it a rather cold operation.
— from The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

whom I name Shall there enact as doth
On the horns Look therefore of the cross: he, whom I name, Shall there enact, as doth in summer cloud Its nimble fire."
— from Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Paradise by Dante Alighieri

whom I name Shall there enact as doth
On the horns Look therefore of the cross: he, whom I name, Shall there enact, as doth in summer cloud
— from The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Paradise, Complete by Dante Alighieri

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