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  • To many among his comrades who had learned to love the gentle, silent "aristocrat," who bore every hardship so patiently, and humanized them so imperceptibly by the simple force of an unvaunted example, those three days were torture.

    Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • The shadow cabinet has some unvaunted stalwarts in big jobs (such as Chris Grayling and Andrew Lansley, who speak on home affairs and health respectively) and promising talents lower down (Nick Herbert on rural affairs, for one, and Greg Clark on energy).

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2009

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