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  • Even dealers were censorious of the sums I spent, thousands of dollars every few weeks; Jack (Jerome's predecessor) had scolded me about it repeatedly even as he sat in the filthy beanbag chair from which he conducted his business, counting my hundreds fresh from the teller's window.†   (source)
  • See there, Rider Eragon, where my predecessors sit upon their graven thrones.†   (source)
  • Then the recruiter started telling me about all the missions SEALs, and their predecessors, the UDTs, had completed.†   (source)
  • I am Brother Fowles, your predecessor in this mission.†   (source)
  • It also opens up a conversation with its famous predecessor.†   (source)
  • "It's four times as fast as its predecessor.†   (source)
  • Auk XIII jumped from the pad in a similar blurred frenzy to its predecessor.†   (source)
  • Understandably, they feared that if their own brotherhood one day died off like its predecessors, the Ancient Mysteries would be lost for all time.†   (source)
  • Like its predecessor, the tube grew into a wicked-looking dagger, its glow illuminating his face.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, however, he was most keen that the staff of his predecessor - a staff of which he had heard high praise - be retained at Darlington Hall.†   (source)
  • Other transports come bringing men to deal with their predecessors.†   (source)
  • And I hope you'll take to heart the lesson to be learned from the fate of your predecessor.†   (source)
  • It was the acceptance of the Copernican revolution that distinguishes modern man from his medieval predecessors.†   (source)
  • Democritus agreed with his predecessors that transformations in nature could not be due to the fact that anything actually "changed."†   (source)
  • His predecessor, Advokat Holger Palmgren, had been of an entirely different ilk: courteous and kind.†   (source)
  • I don't know what killer she's referring to—Jeanine Matthews's predecessor, maybe?†   (source)
  • The failures of your predecessors will guide you.†   (source)
  • While he was obviously not a progressive man, he was courteous and reasonable, in marked contrast to his predecessor.†   (source)
  • Wear this more wisely than did your predecessor.†   (source)
  • In Pornstar's place we now had Mr. Maple, who seemed to be his predecessor's exact opposite.†   (source)
  • "My predecessor came here, I think," the magus explained.†   (source)
  • Chairman Narmonov and my predecessor agreed years ago that no such operation would take place without prior notification.†   (source)
  • He was not overly religious, but he did consider himself a fair prophet and liked to study the styles of his predecessors.†   (source)
  • Building on the work of predecessors such as Galileo, Copernicus, and Kepler, he laid out the principles of his laws of motion, the universal theories that tied the work of these great minds together.†   (source)
  • And my predecessor told me the only reason you filed your warrant officer application was because sergeant first classes sit their butts behind desks at CID while WOs can still get out in the field.†   (source)
  • A 1974 Supreme Court ruling prohibited busing between districts, which meant that white people in the suburbs could stay in their own schools, while minorities in the city center were left with the facilities abandoned by their predecessors.†   (source)
  • It had been used for the rite of coming of age since time out of mind, long before Cort and his predecessor, who had died of a stab-wound from an overzealous hand in this place.†   (source)
  • Then, one day, I became acquainted with one of your predecessors—a Caretaker of the Geographica.†   (source)
  • Things no Mortal has ever seen, except me, and my predecessors.†   (source)
  • Tom admires those old Yale professors and desperately wants to fill a similar role for outsiders of his own time, students who, he thinks, carry a heavier burden with skin color than their predecessors ever faced with their less conspicuous ethnicities.†   (source)
  • By all rights, it should have been Washington who made the triumphal entry, but in a characteristically gracious gesture he gave the honor to Ward, the "thorough New England man" who had been his predecessor as commander and the first and most persistent in favoring a move on Dorchester Heights—though how much this may have figured in Washington's decision is impossible to know.†   (source)
  • … That's regrettable, old boy, as my predecessors might have said.†   (source)
  • My lord father gave your predecessor a crown of rare beauty, wrought in crystal and spun gold.†   (source)
  • Any term in this progression is large compared to its predecessor and small compared to its successor.†   (source)
  • I also salute the courage of our predecessors, Deputy Albert Reynolds, Deputy John Bruton and John Major; and I also salute Deputy Dick Spring, whose role in this process goes back a long way.†   (source)
  • This — along with the untimely arrival of my charming predecessor — was going to make my job a little more difficult.†   (source)
  • Max's predecessor, Antonio de Lorca, had been gregarious and charming, but he seemed to be an exception.†   (source)
  • Lyndon Johnson knows precisely what his predecessors meant.†   (source)
  • But I studied under one of his predecessors-Hugh Akston.†   (source)
  • The new Congress would be as impotent as its predecessors.†   (source)
  • Perfectly preserved, one of his predecessors had apparently gone over the long drop, dying in the deepening ice where he had landed.†   (source)
  • One party blamed the president for the calamity that had befallen America, the other blamed his predecessor.†   (source)
  • I will endeavor to do a better job than my predecessor.†   (source)
  • As you may possibly have heard, my predecessor supplied the Minister with an explanation of this situation in which it was his contention that there were fewer deer because the hunters had increased to the point where they outnumbered the deer about five to one.†   (source)
  • He could not hypnotize the Indians during the process as had his predecessor.†   (source)
  • As a result, it was difficult to compare the standard of living of twenty-first-century man with that of any of his predecessors.†   (source)
  • Contemptuous to the last (the voice droned on), the condemned Nazi leader thus avoided retribution at the hands of his enemies in the same way as had such of his predecessors in death as Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler and the master planner, Adolf Hitler ….†   (source)
  • Four more spouts, each larger than its predecessor … Then an ocean-riving blast caught the Aquina in something close to a tidal wave … We were ready, though, built that way, and faced into it.†   (source)
  • Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors.†   (source)
  • He had accepted his predecessor's count and now the count was short — and the other officer was not merely gone, he was dead.†   (source)
  • In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sank beneath the ground.†   (source)
  • But most of all, I have learned here from this river and from my predecessor, the ferryman Vasudeva.†   (source)
  • This I did, and so did many other young men like myself, not to speak of the old guard of our glorious predecessors, the champions of the people's rights who were sent to hard labor in Siberia or locked up in the Schlusselburg Fortress.†   (source)
  • History was his passion, and he spent his months of recuperation reading the chronicles of his legendary predecessors.†   (source)
  • Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.†   (source)
  • And I must say, you're taking it a lot better than your predecessor.†   (source)
  • Each of these predecessors might provide possible meanings for our situation.†   (source)
  • It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding.†   (source)
  • In fact, I gather your first visit here dates back to the days of my predecessor….†   (source)
  • Some even attempted to turn their predecessors into religious prophets.†   (source)
  • Richter, as your predecessor knows all too well.†   (source)
  • On the contrary, I think my predecessor was quite innocent.†   (source)
  • As he confided to Abigail, he wanted few if any of the "court" trappings of his predecessor.†   (source)
  • I talked to Sheriff Lindemann's predecessor about it long after he retired.†   (source)
  • Kennedy's predecessor, Dwight Eisenhower, stands next to Jackie.†   (source)
  • He had no right to complain of his predecessor's appointments, she lectured Jefferson.†   (source)
  • My predecessor visited the high priest during a trip as ambassador to Eddis.†   (source)
  • "It's a design manufactured by one of his predecessors," she said, tilting her chin at John.†   (source)
  • To prove his worth, a new office-holder often reverses his predecessor's actions.†   (source)
  • I met de Klerk in the same room where I had had tea with his predecessor.†   (source)
  • It's no secret that some of my predecessors at SIS had a certain opinion of Palme—"†   (source)
  • The failures of your predecessors will guide you.†   (source)
  • And the less he acts like his predecessor, the more his constituents will like him.†   (source)
  • The failures of your predecessors will guide you, Tiberinus had said.†   (source)
  • This was one matter in which one of Star's predecessors had interfered in local government.†   (source)
  • The Big Act is its necessary predecessor.†   (source)
  • Faust became a scientist thanks to the mistakes of his predecessors and contemporaries.†   (source)
  • I have therefore referred your letter to Dr. Samuel Bannerling, who attended her under my predecessor.†   (source)
  • My predecessor in this room, my friend with the freckles and the good laugh, must have done this too, this buttering.†   (source)
  • In 1865, nine years after Sikhdar's computations had been confirmed, Waugh bestowed the name Mount Everest on Peak XV, in honor of Sir George Everest, his predecessor as surveyor general.†   (source)
  • The new guard's expression was the same as his predecessor's, seeming to take for granted the guilt of the men in the cage.†   (source)
  • Deynor, Ajihad's predecessor, allowed them to join the Varden because he needed their support …. you can't oppose the Empire without spellcasters who can hold their own on the field of battle.†   (source)
  • He was not going to find anything that his professional predecessor and his experienced team had missed, and he was undecided what approach he should adopt to the problem.†   (source)
  • Such petitions have in the past been unsuccessful, but the Committee expects, as well as hopes, that with the recent political changes, most notably the advent of a fully representational Parliament under the leadership of John A. Macdonald, this one will receive a favourable reception denied to its predecessors.†   (source)
  • In practice, of course, many gentlemen from the noblest families have tended to devote themselves to alleviating the great problems of the day, and so, at a glance, it may have appeared that the ambitions of our generation differed little from those of our predecessors.†   (source)
  • 'We are honour-bound to give service to the present Headmaster of Hogwarts!' cried a frail-looking old wizard whom Harry recognised as Dumbledore's predecessor, Armando Dippet.†   (source)
  • Here a leader took the reins from the dead hands of his predecessor, or slew among the strongest of his tribe if a leader died in the desert.†   (source)
  • Then she found a large brown envelope in the mailbox: Democritus agreed with his predecessors that transformations in nature could not be due to the fact that anything actually "changed."†   (source)
  • Prior to the meeting with Bjurman the week before Christmas she had prepared herself; once there, she had tried to explain that his predecessor had trusted her and had never been given occasion to do otherwise.†   (source)
  • Like his famous predecessor, Hally must grow up and become Master Harold, worthy successor to his father in the family business.†   (source)
  • Value is the predecessor of structure.†   (source)
  • Like the three Fates, together they had spun and measured and cut—taking in gowns, raising hems, and letting out pants with all of the fateful implications of their predecessors.†   (source)
  • To throw out Hume's conclusions was necessary, but unfortunately he had arrived at them in such a way that it was seemingly impossible to throw them out without abandoning empirical reason itself and retiring into some medieval predecessor of empirical reason.†   (source)
  • His attitude toward Aristotle was grossly unfair for the same reason Aristotle was unfair to his predecessors.†   (source)
  • He thought he was privileged, but we were only using him to trap his predecessor, unearthed by our man in Special Branch.†   (source)
  • The notebooks had been compiled by Bjurman's predecessor, the lawyer Holger Palmgren, who had apparently come to know Salander as well as or better than anyone.†   (source)
  • It was this event that convinced Anurin-Vrael's predecessor as head Rider-to allow humans to become Riders, in order to prevent similar disputes.†   (source)
  • They were men of middling birth, by and large; merchants' sons, lesser lordlings, sometimes even foreigners, but judging from their results, far more able than their highborn predecessors.†   (source)
  • In place of the rich robes of his predecessors, he wore a shapeless tunic of undyed wool that fell down to his ankles.†   (source)
  • That would be placing myself in the same relation to you as the minister of justice's predecessor once stood to the journalist Ebbe Carlsson.†   (source)
  • To Jason's relief, there were no newspapers on the counter, but the late night clerk behind it was in the same mold as his predecessor in the center of Paris.†   (source)
  • Unlike their predecessors, the cripples wore robes of dark leather, tailored to match their individual infirmities.†   (source)
  • Will you deign to bestow your blessing upon Orik, Thrifk's son, and to crown him in the tradition of his predecessors?†   (source)
  • His sigil had been a burning torch; an unfortunate choice, given the fate of his predecessor, but the alchemist had been elevated largely because he shared the king's passion for fire.†   (source)
  • Within three years of his coming to court, he was master of coin and a member of the small council, and today the crown's revenues were ten times what they had been under his beleaguered predecessor …. though the crown's debts had grown vast as well.†   (source)
  • Since the soldiers were forced to climb up a ramp of corpses to reach him, he was able to kill many of them when they stumbled over an arm or a leg or stepped upon the soft neck of one of their predecessors or slipped on a slanting shield.†   (source)
  • The shirt had once belonged to Antonio de Lorca, Max's predecessor in the Red Branch, and no ordinary weapon could pierce it.†   (source)
  • The Thief of Eddis himself gave the apprentice the gold and did so because only if my predecessor was afraid for his life could he be induced to flee to Eddis.†   (source)
  • It intimidated him to remember that Arya had known most of the leaders of the Varden, and he could not help but think that Ajihad or his predecessor, Deynor, would have done a better job with the speech.†   (source)
  • It starts on Wednesday evening at the incoming freshmen dinner as President Vartan Gregorian tells them they're the "best, most intelligent, most diverse class to ever enter Brown," an address he or his predecessors have given (generally called the "best ever" speech) to every incoming freshman class.†   (source)
  • You admit Ser Osney Kettleblack was your lover, and Ser Osney insists that he smothered my predecessor at your behest.†   (source)
  • And he was determined that his reign, short though he intended it to be, would not be marked by the threats and bullying tactics of his predecessor's.†   (source)
  • "Three days later my predecessor retired to civilian life, and the Minister issued a press statement: 'The Department of Mines and Resources is determined to do everything in its power to curb the carnage being wreaked upon the deer population by hordes of wolves.†   (source)
  • "Jeanine's predecessor.†   (source)
  • Before anything else is done, we have to return Hrothgar to Farthen Dur so he can be entombed with his predecessors.†   (source)
  • Laura Bradford was Chalmers' current mistress; he liked her because his predecessor had been Wesley Mouch.†   (source)
  • But Rowan has also always dwelled in the shadow of her predecessors; she has been a mere echo of a grander, more storied past.†   (source)
  • 9, under "Order in Debate," it was almost as though he had his predecessor as Vice President specifically in mind.†   (source)
  • Like its ancient predecessor, whose red marble halls were now the haunt of bats and spiders, the Meereenese pyramid boasted three-and-thirty levels, that number being somehow sacred to the gods of Ghis.†   (source)
  • I think it was an Eddisian who intended to be taken as an Attolian and that he gave that apprentice gold to betray my predecessor for the purpose of misdirection.†   (source)
  • Jackie, who doesn't get along with her predecessor, has gotten rid of all of Mamie's cheap furniture and carpeting and painted over the pink.†   (source)
  • We knew that in order to withstand Galbatorix, the new Rider had to be more powerful than any of his predecessors, more powerful than even Vrael.†   (source)
  • Like their predecessors, they split their spearson his wards, and then they too jumped free of their horses as Barst struck the animals down.†   (source)
  • "The factions were our predecessors' attempt to incorporate a 'nurture' element to the experiment—they discovered that mere genetic correction was not enough to change the way people behaved.†   (source)
  • Dorim Lugar had been Schermont's friend and leader, and the new spokesman's policies toward hated Caer-Dineval were even more iron-handed than those of his predecessor.†   (source)
  • I read all of his speeches, listened to what he said, and began to see that he represented a genuine departure from his predecessor.†   (source)
  • Berger's predecessor Morander had on one occasion questioned whether Fredriksson should indeed stay on as assistant editor.†   (source)
  • He did not pause to grasp it now-because in the flooding brightness of what he felt, another thought, which was its predecessor, had become clear to him and had been holding him for many minutes past.†   (source)
  • Indeed, some of the language in the speech he carried was their own, arrived at after he had asked for their answers to a list of specific questions, a technique employed by his predecessor.†   (source)
  • Her guard captain, Teleus's predecessor, had eliminated her overbearing suitor, and she'd left her barons to themselves to accept the reality of her rule and gone to her bedchamber—the last time she would go to that room instead of the royal apartments.†   (source)
  • There are also windows on the ground floor and six basement windows that were left without alarms by our predecessors.†   (source)
  • When the change is because of an election, the new person can assume that his predecessor lost the election because people disliked his measures.†   (source)
  • Barristan Selmy was not a bookish man, but he had often glanced through the pages of the White Book, where the deeds of his predecessors had been recorded.†   (source)
  • In my speech I expressed my appreciation for the great honor that had been bestowed on me, and spoke of how difficult it would be to follow in the large footsteps of my predecessor, Oliver Tambo.†   (source)
  • However, although the Varden aren't a country and we answer to no one's authority but our own, that doesnot give you or anyone else leave to ignore the rule of law as laid down by my predecessors or as it's observed here in Surda.†   (source)
  • The country had no clear image of what he looked like: his photographs had appeared on the covers of magazines as frequently as those of his predecessors in office, but people could never be quite certain which photographs were his and which were pictures of "a mail clerk" or "a white-collar worker," accompanying articles about the daily life of the undifferentiated-except that Mr. Thompson's collars were usually wilted.†   (source)
  • You, child of Jupiter—for the horrible betrayal of your predecessor who brought us here, you shall pay.†   (source)
  • Armed with all the scientific knowledge at our government's disposal, our predecessors designed experiments to restore humanity to its genetically pure state."†   (source)
  • "Well, when our predecessors at the Bureau inserted 'corrected' genes into your ancestors, they also included a genetic tracker, which is basically something that shows us that a person has achieved genetic healing.†   (source)
  • When Star became Empress she had barely started the second half of her training, having had imprinted in her only seven of her predecessors.†   (source)
  • Here on this ferry-boat, for instance, a man has been my predecessor and teacher, a holy man, who has for many years simply believed in the river, nothing else.†   (source)
  • This was a drastic change for capital society as her predecessor had imposed protocol more formal than that of the Vatican.†   (source)
  • Forward steps in art are governed by the law of attraction, are the result of the imitation of and admiration for beloved predecessors.†   (source)
  • Our predecessors do not seem to have been very enterprising.†   (source)
  • So were his predecessors the Saxons, who drove the Old Ones away.†   (source)
  • _" "Thy predecessor the famous Judas Iscariot hanged himself," Pilar said.†   (source)
  • She had nothing like the love of Nature, the fiery imagination, the wild poetry, the brilliant wit, the brooding wisdom of her great predecessors, Lady Winchilsea, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen and George Eliot; she could not write with the melody and the dignity of Dorothy Osborne—indeed she was no more than a clever girl whose books will no doubt be pulped by the publishers in ten years' time.†   (source)
  • Then when her ready cash was gone, had come Who Flung to denounce his predecessor as a scoundrel and took up around the house himself.†   (source)
  • He was in constant touch with his future predecessor and received long weekly letters of guidance from him.†   (source)
  • The boy who had been reading when David had come in had finished, and his place was taken by a second who seemed less able to maintain the rapid drone of his predecessor.†   (source)
  • I'm a theologian and my predecessor, Luther, took the side of the princes and plutocrats against the peasants.†   (source)
  • Gregory XVI, that aristocratic and autocratic prelate, who stood so consistently on the wrong side in European politics, and was the enemy of Free Italy, had done more than any of his predecessors to propagate the Faith in remote parts of the world.†   (source)
  • Like all my spiritual predecessors.†   (source)
  • This was more than any of his predecessors had accomplished, but he fretted nervously over his accounts until he found that he had become, for the circulation manager, the exemplar for indolent boys.†   (source)
  • But the thing which this fellow had overlooked, my friend, was that he had had a predecessor in the reformation business, called Jesus Christ.†   (source)
  • Then, to show how I had thought it all out: "My predecessor—the one who died."†   (source)
  • He was proud that this was fifty more than his predecessor had required.†   (source)
  • Every succeeding day was like its predecessor, only richer.†   (source)
  • Then,' I continued, 'my predecessor's name was Linton?'†   (source)
  • The name of Professor Dingo, my immediate predecessor, is one of European reputation.†   (source)
  • When a man is bound by the action of his predecessor—'†   (source)
  • Mr. Sheriff Stensgaard was your predecessor at that editorial desk.†   (source)
  • Now it was that the lucubrations of my ancient predecessor, Mr. Surveyor Pue, came into play.†   (source)
  • He heard it shut again; it was his predecessor, James Forster, departing in his turn.†   (source)
  • These remarks were not less favourably received by Mr Dorrit than their predecessors.†   (source)
  • He, of course, knew nothing of E's predecessor, slain down South in the habit of an Arab trader.†   (source)
  • And, as each hour struck, it would seem to me that a few seconds only had passed since the hour before; the latest would inscribe itself, close to its predecessor, on the sky's surface, and I would be unable to believe that sixty minutes could be squeezed into the tiny arc of blue which was comprised between their two golden figures.†   (source)
  • The cellar, indeed, was filled with crazy lumber, mostly dating from the times of the surgeon who was Jekyll's predecessor; but even as they opened the door they were advertised of the uselessness of further search, by the fall of a perfect mat of cobweb which had for years sealed up the entrance.†   (source)
  • Therefore these trucks went for the most part on the run; and the predecessor of Jonas had been jammed against the wall by one and crushed in a horrible and nameless manner.†   (source)
  • I did not protest, first, because I dislike scandal, and, second, because I thought that your predecessors, MM.†   (source)
  • I couldn't let it rest, though; but when an opportunity offered at last to meet my predecessor, the grass growing through his ribs was tall enough to hide his bones.†   (source)
  • Ed made several attempts which, although better than those of his predecessors, were rather discouraging to the exacting coach.†   (source)
  • She was informed that Arabella had not yet left, and in doubt how to announce herself so that her predecessor in Jude's affections would recognize her, she sent up word that a friend from Spring Street had called, naming the place of Jude's residence.†   (source)
  • Kennicott had inherited it from a medical predecessor, and changed it only by adding a white enameled operating-table, a sterilizer, a Roentgen-ray apparatus, and a small portable typewriter.†   (source)
  • "Weren't some of the popes—of course, not our present man, or his predecessor, but some of the old popes—not exactly…. you know…. up to the knocker?"†   (source)
  • The triumphant machine of civilization may suddenly hitch and be immobilized into a car of stone, and at such moments the destiny of the English seems to resemble their predecessors', who also entered the country with intent to refashion it, but were in the end worked into its pattern and covered with its dust.†   (source)
  • On inquiry of these precious innocents, to whom even the name of their predecessors was a failing memory, Clare learned that John Durbeyfield was dead; that his widow and children had left Marlott, declaring that they were going to live at Kingsbere, but instead of doing so had gone on to another place they mentioned.†   (source)
  • And I'll tell you another reason why criticism is meaningless: a great painter forces the world to see nature as he sees it; but in the next generation another painter sees the world in another way, and then the public judges him not by himself but by his predecessor.†   (source)
  • It was a little past three-thirty when a technical assistant who worked down here opened the door to admit the lucky Swedish bruiser—evidently his predecessor had been let out by way of another exit.†   (source)
  • And Pius IX his predecessor's motto was Crux upon Crux—that is, Cross upon Cross—to show the difference between their two pontificates."†   (source)
  • She rose, not as if she had heard me, but with an indescribable grand melancholy of indifference and detachment, and, within a dozen feet of me, stood there as my vile predecessor.†   (source)
  • An athletic black belonging to some coast tribe, and educated by my poor predecessor, was the helmsman.†   (source)
  • I, for my pan, was never able to attain such clarity, although it was clear to me that anyone who found himself in a situation where he must ponder such matters would have to assume certain precedents, or indeed predecessors—though I did know that Director Behrens, who as you are perhaps aware is an amateur painter in oils, had in the course of a great many sittings produced a magnificent portrait of her, with a lifelike mastery of the skin that, just between us, certainly takes one…†   (source)
  • Let me know by a letter handed to Mme. Giry, who will see that it reaches me, that you accept, as your predecessors did, the conditions in my memorandum-book relating to my monthly allowance.†   (source)
  • Often for several days on end the suspicion that she was in love with some one else would distract his mind from the question of Forcheville, making it almost immaterial to him, like those new developments of a continuous state of ill-health which seem for a little time to have delivered us from their predecessors.†   (source)
  • I felt that I doubtless needn't press too hard, in such company, on the place of a servant in the scale; but there was nothing to prevent an acceptance of my companion's own measure of my predecessor's abasement.†   (source)
  • We must not forget that the managers had an idea at the back of their minds, all the time, that this strange incident might be an unpleasant practical joke on the part of their predecessors and that it would not do to divulge it prematurely.†   (source)
  • I might well have needed that, for with this hard blow of the proof that her eyes were hopelessly sealed I felt my own situation horribly crumble, I felt—I saw—my livid predecessor press, from her position, on my defeat, and I was conscious, more than all, of what I should have from this instant to deal with in the astounding little attitude of Flora.†   (source)
  • When we saw this, there was nothing else for us to do but to rise from our chairs, shake our two predecessors warmly by the hand and congratulate them on thinking of this charming little joke, which proved that the old French sense of humor was never likely to become extinct.†   (source)
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