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  • Had you been here, I should have struggled on longer without taking to bed, and been in the desperatest haste to get out of it.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • "Counterfeiters," Jimmie went on, "is the desperatest kind of criminals there is.

    New Faces Myra Kelly 1893

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