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Nicetas its monotony becomes utterly sickening
In the hands of Theodorus and Nicetas its monotony becomes utterly sickening, while the level of the composition of neither is much above that of a by no means gifted schoolboy, even if we make full allowance for the changes in prosody, and especially in quantity, which had set in for Greek as they had for other languages.
— from The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

night in my bureau under some
I found it last night in my bureau, under some books and papers.”
— from A Sweet Girl Graduate by L. T. Meade

night in my bureau under some
I found it last night in my bureau, under some books and papers."
— from A Sweet Girl Graduate by L. T. Meade

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