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"And I reckon no hero can feel properly hee-roic when his innards be cold and empty --"
Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Thus we come across, for example, drip ` snare meant for another, but ensnaring the author of it, 'meadhail ` an uncommon and unaccountable burst of joy, on the eve of getting some distressing news; and roic ` sumptuous feasting of boorish people; superabundance of the good things of life, without any of the refined manners of genteel society,' to mention only three from a very long list.
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T HAVE no words, that can exprefs to you my indignation againft that monfter Re - vel, my feelings for the injured Arundel, or thejuft encomiums which arc doe to your he - roic, generous conduft.
Arundel 1789
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