No offence in that, sir, I suppose?" "Oh, none, assuredly," replied Richard of Woodville; "but I thought you mentioned my name."
— from Agincourt: A Romance The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
Whether these names are rightly rendered, or whether they mean different sorts of locusts, or the locusts in their different stages of growth, crawling at first and flying at last, matters little.
— from The Good News of God by Charles Kingsley
And Pocket could understand her now, though it was no consecutive tale that he heard, but a very chaos of excuses and extenuations, regrets, suppositions, and not always revelant recollections, of which he had to make what he could in his own mind.
— from The Camera Fiend by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
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