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  • Here hope and expectation are drawn out in your breast like chewing gum stretched to the last shred of tenuation.

    The Delicious Vice Young Ewing Allison 1892

  • [(madam, in ex) -10.6 (tenuation of his offence, he was himself in despair at the situation in which)] TJ

    Agnes De-Courci: a Domestic Tale 1789

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