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To say the truth, whether it were chance or skill or downright witchcraft, there was something wonderfully human in this ridiculous shape bedizened with its tattered finery, and, as for the countenance, it appeared to shrivel its yellow surface into a grin--a funny kind of expression betwixt scorn and merriment, as if it understood itself to be a jest at mankind.— Short Stories of Various Types
Even that's bereft us too: Our envious fates Jostle betwixt, and part the dear adieus Of meeting lips, clasped hands, and locked embraces Ćneas.— The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06
My poor poet, I pity you--betwixt the devil and the deep sea They're a pair of harpies, each holding over me the Damocles sword of an arrest for bigamy.— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
But you would not be contented to bed me so; or give me leave to put the sword betwixt us Aur.— The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04

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