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"ref": "1846, R[obert] S[tephen] Hawker, “The Wreck”, in Echoes from Old Cornwall, London: Joseph Masters, […], →OCLC, stanza X, page 76",
"text": "And still when loudliest howls the storm, / And darkliest lowers his native sky, / The king's fierce soul is in that form, / The warrior's spirit threatens nigh!",
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"ref": "1873, Agnes Strickland, chapter VIII, in Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. … In Six Volumes, new revised and augmented edition, volume VI, London: Bell & Daldy, […], →OCLC, page 285",
"text": "The queen's letter coming up to the duchess's own ideas of her own deserts, she condescended to speak on the subject which had caused such portentous blackness to lour on her countenance, on her first meeting her royal mistress.",
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"ref": "1891, Euripides, “The Phœnician Maidens”, in Edward P[hilip] Coleridge, transl., The Plays of Euripides: Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley (Bohn’s Classical Library), volume II, London: George Bell & Sons, […], →OCLC, page 230",
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"text": "I have ſuch averſion to ill temper, that I could ſooner forgive my wife adultery, than croſſneſs. I cannot taſte Caſſio's kiſs on her lips; but I can ſee a lour on her brow.",
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"ref": "1846, R[obert] S[tephen] Hawker, “The Wreck”, in Echoes from Old Cornwall, London: Joseph Masters, […], →OCLC, stanza X, page 76",
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"ref": "1873, Agnes Strickland, chapter VIII, in Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. … In Six Volumes, new revised and augmented edition, volume VI, London: Bell & Daldy, […], →OCLC, page 285",
"text": "The queen's letter coming up to the duchess's own ideas of her own deserts, she condescended to speak on the subject which had caused such portentous blackness to lour on her countenance, on her first meeting her royal mistress.",
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"text": "I have ſuch averſion to ill temper, that I could ſooner forgive my wife adultery, than croſſneſs. I cannot taſte Caſſio's kiſs on her lips; but I can ſee a lour on her brow.",
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