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  • On the crest of a stupendous crag overhanging the river, almost opposite the town, which isn't far from Krems, stood the venerable but unvenerated castle of that highhanded old robber baron, the first of the Rothhoefens.

    A Fool and His Money George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • Some cling to you in woebegone misery; others come back fiercely and weirdly, like ghouls bent upon sucking your strength away; others, again, have a catastrophic splendour; some are unvenerated recollections, as of spiteful wild-cats clawing at your agonized vitals; others are severe, like a visitation; and one or two rise up draped and mysterious, with an aspect of ominous menace.

    The Mirror of the Sea Joseph Conrad 1890

  • Fred, in spite of his irritation, had kindness enough in him to be a little sorry for the unloved, unvenerated old man, who with his dropsical legs looked more than usually pitiable in walking.

    Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900) 1871

  • Fred, in spite of his irritation, had kindness enough in him to be a little sorry for the unloved, unvenerated old man, who with his dropsical legs looked more than usually pitiable in walking.

    Middlemarch George Eliot 1849

  • a little sorry for the unloved, unvenerated old man, who with his dropsical legs looked more than usually pitiable in walking.

    Middlemarch 1871

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