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The old Norman lordhood quality here, too, crossd with that Saxon fiber from which twain the best current stock of England springspoetry that revels above all things in traditions of knights and chivalry, and deeds of derring-do.
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Our Ex-Chancellor has been promulgating triticalities (significant as novelties, when he with his wig and lordhood utters them) against the Aristocracy; whereat the upper circles are terribly scandalized.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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The old Norman lordhood quality here, too, cross'd with that Saxon fiber from which twain the best current stock of England springs -- poetry that revels above all things in traditions of knights and chivalry, and deeds of derring-do.
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Norman lordhood quality here, too, crossed with that Saxon fiber from which twain the best current stock of England springs -- poetry that revels above all things in traditions of knights and chivalry, and deeds of derring-do.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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Our Ex-Chancellor has been promulgating triticalities (significant as novelties, when _he_ with his wig and lordhood utters them) against the
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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