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• Foreigners, especially Frenchmen, had rung the changes on our coarse venality and corruption; and we had come to perceive--it took some time, though--that moneyed damages were scarcely the appropriate remedy for injured honour Last of all, free-trade notions had turned all our heads: we were for getting rid of all restrictions on every side; and we went about repeating to each other those wise saws about buying in the cheapest and selling in the dearest market, and having whatever we wanted, and doing whatever we liked with our own. —  Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
• I could perceive, as he drew near, that it was James Dougall Well, well, Muster Maxby," he said on coming up, "it's gled I am to find you. —  The Big Otter
• Yet this is very unjust; an author who has given a wrong direction to his literary powers may perceive, at length, where he can more securely point them. —  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
• Newton said but a few words; but they were to the point; and he had the satisfaction to perceive, as they grasped their cutlasses, that if their numbers were few and their frames exhausted, their spirit was as unsubdued as ever The corvette had in the meantime run ahead on a wind, about a mile, when she wore round, and was now standing right on to the Windsor Castle_, and had neared to within three cables' lengths. —  Newton Forster The Merchant Service
• Your papers I perceive are all right. —  Mr. Midshipman Easy

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