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The seniors in especial were anxious to distinguish themselves.— A harum-scarum schoolgirl
Sausage or hides or leather is better--especial if wholesale Bonnie Bell was quiet.— The Man Next Door
He had a taste for literature and a longing for travel and military adventure in especial, and for a time he lived a pleasant, free and easy, Bohemian sort of life, if we may use the term Bohemian in describing days that existed long before Henri Murger had given the word its modern application Sidenote: 1763-89--Theobald Wolfe Tone One of the many odd, original ideas which floated like bubbles across Wolfe Tone's fancy was a scheme for founding a sort of military colony in some island in the South Seas, to act as a check upon the designs and enterprises of Spain against the British Empire.— A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)
We can supply back numbers of "The Child's Monthly" and "Monthly Reader" at the above low rate We call the especial attention of School Committees, Teachers, and others to the opportunity here afforded of obtaining the Choicest and Best Illustrated Reading-Matter at a trifling expense.— The Nursery, Number 164 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers
Claudius and Margaret were glad of the rattling talk that delivered them from the burden of saying anything especial, and they both laughed quite naturally at Barker's odd wit.— Doctor Claudius, A True Story

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