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  • Noel Madison played the villain with wooden-faced charm; Charles Starrett, a brawnily handsome New England actor, took the role of the undercover detective for whom Virginia falls.

    Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

  • These were, in all cases, men who had made a financial success in more lucrative branches of literature than poetry; and it was natural for the veterans, who had brawnily struggled through the burden and heat of the day, to look with the unsympathetic eye of the sturdy upon those frailer ones of the rising generation who perhaps might, without assistance, be eliminated in the rough-and-tumble of the literary market-place.

    The Joyful Heart Robert Haven Schauffler 1921

  • In April, the month of piled and hurried cloud, it is a Rape of the Sabines overhead from all quarters, either one of the winds brawnily larcenous; and London, smoking royally to the open skies, builds images of a dusty epic fray for possession of the portly dames.

    One of Our Conquerors — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

  • In April, the month of piled and hurried cloud, it is a Rape of the Sabines overhead from all quarters, either one of the winds brawnily larcenous; and London, smoking royally to the open skies, builds images of a dusty epic fray for possession of the portly dames.

    One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • In April, the month of piled and hurried cloud, it is a Rape of the Sabines overhead from all quarters, either one of the winds brawnily larcenous; and London, smoking royally to the open skies, builds images of a dusty epic fray for possession of the portly dames.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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