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  • I've learned an invaluable lesson about lust today.†   (source)
  • In assembling this book I received invaluable assistance from many people, but Linda Mariam Moore and David S. Roberts deserve special mention.†   (source)
  • Those disks could have been invaluable to Acting Commander Gudgeon at his hearing.†   (source)
  • The migrants I spent time with also gave me an invaluable gift.†   (source)
  • Some have argued for abandoning this place because of its drain on our resources, but Tronjheim does perform one invaluable task.†   (source)
  • I don't know if it was exactly appropriate as a wedding present—it's a handheld, one-person game—but as a training tool it was invaluable.†   (source)
  • He's been filming, recording, every moment of his life now for five years, and it's been an invaluable asset to the Circle, and soon, I bet, to all of humankind.†   (source)
  • Thank you as well, Mr. Markos, not only for your friendship, for taking the time to visit me daily and sit down for tea and for sharing with me news of your mother on Tinos and your childhood friend Thalia, but also for your compassion for my people and the invaluable service you are providing children here.†   (source)
  • He's invaluable.†   (source)
  • I learned these lessons in alchemy, but you will find them invaluable in this new world you've unwittingly wandered into.†   (source)
  • And he's been invaluable in organizing the present conference.†   (source)
  • And the gift of eye and hand coordination has been an invaluable asset in surgery.†   (source)
  • The General may have brought about very little change in my life, but it was certainly true that his alliance with the okiya was invaluable, at least from Mother's point of view.†   (source)
  • Her companions were the lazier of the Old Sarum boys, the laziest of whom was one Albert Coningham, a slow thinker to whom Jean Louise had rendered invaluable service during six-weeks' tests.†   (source)
  • We never dreamed she would be in there for so long, of course, but she was useful—we had never thought about having an insider before, and she was able to do many things that were invaluable to us.†   (source)
  • Alice was an invaluable ally, even though she knew nothing about my secret life.†   (source)
  • There was a nonpolitical prisoner among us, nicknamed Joe My Baby, who later joined the ANC and proved invaluable in helping us smuggle material in and out of prison.†   (source)
  • Also, his friendship had already proven invaluable to me several times.†   (source)
  • He had looked up the symptom in The Home Medical Encyclopedia, an invaluable tome in twelve volumes which his wife had gotten a volume at a time by saving her checkout slips from the Shop 'n Save in South Paris.†   (source)
  • Aunt May's spirit, Miss Lucy's kindness, Miss Marlee's buoyancy, and Mom's strength were invaluable, and more enlightening than any class I ever took.†   (source)
  • Their lessons always proved invaluable and inviolable.†   (source)
  • Those missionaries have invaluable on-the-ground experience.†   (source)
  • The experience he gained in judging horses would be invaluable to him later, though he would have scoffed at the idea at the time.†   (source)
  • We need you to detonate the missile so the Iraqis cannot get the technology, which is invaluable.†   (source)
  • Larten Crepsley and his amazing performing spider will be an invaluable addition to the lineup.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart bewailed the miserable fate that had given him for an invaluable assistant someone as common as Colonel Korn.†   (source)
  • A profiler, if he or she is good, is actually invaluable in an investigation of this kind.†   (source)
  • Most boys unfold in this natural, measured way, growing up with at least one adult on the scene who can convincingly fake being all-powerful, omniscient, and unfailingly protective for a kid's first decade or so, providing an invaluable canopy of reachable stars and monsters that are comfortably make-believe.†   (source)
  • Sound Nursing Sense is a quality that cannot be defined, yet is invaluable when present and noticeable when absent.†   (source)
  • And his advice would be invaluable.†   (source)
  • The CIA director had proven invaluable and earned his life.†   (source)
  • With this perpetrator, electronic investigation isn't primary, though Captain Feeney's help is invaluable.†   (source)
  • The managing editor of the Anniston Star let me move to the state desk when I was still in my early twenties, into a newsroom dominated by Harvard, Yale, Columbia and assorted other pointy heads who came South for the invaluable experience they would glean from writing about people that some of them held largely in contempt.†   (source)
  • Don't ask me questions, but I have urgent information that could be invaluable to your sister's husband.†   (source)
  • And he had just planted disinformation that in the long run might prove invaluable.†   (source)
  • It was precisely Franklin's subtlety, his worldliness, that made him invaluable as a diplomat.†   (source)
  • Amanda Levick and Lara Warner, whose help was invaluable; and Philip Benedict, for insight into the minds and libraries of seventeenth-century clergy.†   (source)
  • My mother had trouble persuading me to carry one because I was a lady, but I now realized that a handkerchief was an invaluable tool for a counterspy--to erase fingerprints, and so forth.†   (source)
  • I give you my word that my help would be invaluable.†   (source)
  • It is also an invaluable reminder to you that we are on the threshold of war.†   (source)
  • Grazdan, she had been forewarned, was a cousin of the Green Grace, whose support she had found invaluable.†   (source)
  • It's only a lead, an invaluable lead, but it would take the sort of mind that's born once in a century, to complete it.†   (source)
  • That was another invaluable fact Lee had filed away during the last couple of weeks.†   (source)
  • The General delivered a rather grumpy speech on the invaluable lessons to be derived from losing.†   (source)
  • But that first letter, now framed in my office, had already given me an invaluable license.†   (source)
  • In this regard, our intelligence apparatus has proved invaluable, in that the local population directs us to an enemy who would prefer to avoid a strong opponent.†   (source)
  • Montgomery had referred to her as "a most remarkable woman, and invaluable as a scout."†   (source)
  • He despised being in charge of supplies, but it taught him invaluable lessons about logistics and the way an army could live off the land through foraging when cut off from its supply column.†   (source)
  • You are as good a cavalry officer as I have known, and your service to this army has been invaluable.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, the surveillance devices had the potential to supply invaluable intelligence, such as the targets and identities of other members of the attack cells.†   (source)
  • He is an invaluable asset with all of his business knowledge and experience.†   (source)
  • He brought with him a cousin of his, the young Eskimo, Ootek, who was to become my boon companion and who was to prove invaluable to me in my wolf researches.†   (source)
  • There are so many things that you can do that would be invaluable, with your knowledge of the language.†   (source)
  • He'd been little more than a toddler then; but small as he was his memory and instinct had been at work, recording landmarks, storing up information that might be of use for the future - information that was proving invaluable now.†   (source)
  • These resourceful, selfconfident, masterful characters-in practical things they are invaluable, but in matters of feeling I can think of nothing more horrible than all this impertinent, male complacency!†   (source)
  • The greatest debt is owed to my research associate, Theodore C. Sorensen, for his invaluable assistance in the assembly and preparation of the material upon which this book is based.†   (source)
  • Gone were his precious water, his vest pack with rations and a dozen other invaluable articles— his antibiotics, his salt, his compass, his climbers, his matches, his hammock …. everything.†   (source)
  • Invaluable paintings were lost in the fire.
  • His group could be invaluable in an assault like this.†   (source)
  • The Governor's excellent wife is an invaluable member of our Committee.†   (source)
  • I'm just glad you wised up and are willing to consider his invaluable services.†   (source)
  • The elves and the Urgals proved invaluable.†   (source)
  • Hell, you consider me of invaluable importance even to your own necks.†   (source)
  • They are invaluable and we honor them, but theirs is grim and solitary work.†   (source)
  • She'd been just as invaluable to Shade personally.†   (source)
  • Most important, Martin learned how to make our duck calls, which made him invaluable.†   (source)
  • Even if Thomas gave us nothing more, what he's given us to this point has been invaluable.†   (source)
  • As a contact in the city, she'd been invaluable.†   (source)
  • Miss Taggart, you have performed an invaluable service to the people.†   (source)
  • But looking back, the experience we had on Outdoor Channel was invaluable.†   (source)
  • It is an invaluable instrument of public security.†   (source)
  • You consider me of invaluable importance to the country?†   (source)
  • We on the Committee have appealed to him — a favourable report from him would have been invaluable to our cause — but he is intransigent.†   (source)
  • * He told the board that, although I was only 33, I had a wide range of experience and invaluable skills.†   (source)
  • Holly became the LEP's foremost expert in the Artemis Fowl cases, and was invaluable in the fight against the People's most feared enemy.†   (source)
  • Immigrant women who work as nannies and caregivers provide something invaluable: kindness and nurturing, often at the expense of their own children, says Kristine M. Zentgraf, a sociology professor at California State University at Long Beach.†   (source)
  • Unlike the Great Library of Orynth, here there were no Master Scholars to protect the invaluable books.†   (source)
  • If you are knowledgeable, particularly more knowledgeable than anybody else in a field, you become invaluable and write your own ticket.†   (source)
  • But the results will be invaluable.†   (source)
  • She hadn't returned to the Great Library since—and wondered how many of those invaluable works had been ordered destroyed by the King of Adarlan when he outlawed magic.†   (source)
  • A man like Petyr Baelish, who had a gift for rubbing two golden dragons together to breed a third, was invaluable to his Hand.†   (source)
  • That skill alone made her invaluable.†   (source)
  • He was invaluable.'†   (source)
  • The arrangement allowed strangers to contact each other from any location in the world, which was an invaluable ability in times of war.†   (source)
  • From early readersDarleen Bungey, Brian Hall, the Horwitz quartet of Elinor, Joshua, Norman and Tony, Bill Powers, Martha Sherrill, and Graham Thorburn—I received invaluable advice on everything from Restoration poetry to Yersinia pestic.†   (source)
  • WITH RARE COURAGE SHE LED OVER THREE HUNDRED NEGROES UP FROM SLAVERY TO FREEDOM, AND RENDERED INVALUABLE SERVICE AS NURSE AND SPY.†   (source)
  • He had been a high-ranking officer in the security forces, with access to invaluable intelligence information.†   (source)
  • We had lost invaluable family records, photographs, and keepsakes—even the slice of wedding cake Winnie was saving for my release.†   (source)
  • At the onset, the cooperation of administrators and teachers at Frank W. Ballou Senior High School was invaluable— especially that of Clarence Taylor, Cedric's Scripture-quoting mentor.†   (source)
  • It ended: Jane Roberts (courtesy of Jane Roberts) If 34,000,000 American women send one dollar each to the UN Population Fund, we can help the Fund continue its "invaluable work" and at the same time confirm that providing family planning and reproductive health services to women who would otherwise have none is a humanitarian issue, not a political one.†   (source)
  • I was told that Ruben—your Zalachenko—was alive and healthy, that he was cooperating, and that the information he provided was invaluable.†   (source)
  • Rolfs charge, Orion, had also joined, the massive shedu bringing along a pair of centaurs whose skills at archery made them an invaluable resource when it came to teaching those who were ill-suited for hand-to-hand combat.†   (source)
  • South Africa was now deprived of one of its greatest sons, a man who would have been invaluable in transforming the country into a new nation.†   (source)
  • The revolver was a present he had received from British Intelligence twenty-five years earlier as a reward for an invaluable piece of information: the name of a clerical officer at MI5 who in good Philby style was working for the Russians.†   (source)
  • It was derived from your invaluable research into the nature of cosmic rays and of the spatial transmission of energy.†   (source)
  • I couldn't have allowed your invaluable time to be taken up by the writing of radio speeches," said Dr. Ferris.†   (source)
  • And when I find a customer with that invaluable capacity, then my performance is a mutual trade to mutual profit.†   (source)
  • To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake-and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem.†   (source)
  • "I don't know how you can say that, after we've given you every assurance that we consider you of invaluable importance to the country, to the steel industry, to-"†   (source)
  • She wondered what had been his purpose tonight-and noticed that he had, perhaps, accomplished it: he had carried her over the worst moment, he had given her an invaluable defense against despair-the knowledge that a living intelligence had heard her and understood.†   (source)
  • The only excuse I can offer for our maintenance department is that the shortage of fuel was not due to their negligence, it was-oh, I realize that you would not know about it and such matters should not take up your invaluable attention-but, you see, the oil shortage last winter was a nation-wide crisis.†   (source)
  • …were employed in making fine clothes out of the fancy goods snatched on the station ramp from condemned Jews, expert cobblers and workers in high-quality leather, gardeners with green thumbs, technicians and engineers possessing certain specialist capabilities, and a handful like Sophie with combined linguistic and secretarial gifts) were spared extermination for the raw pragmatic reason that their talents came as close to being invaluable as that word had any such meaning in the camp.†   (source)
  • Frank Crawley was invaluable at a moment like this.†   (source)
  • She has been invaluable to me as a secretary-companion, and is also a very efficient housekeeper.†   (source)
  • And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly?†   (source)
  • Now began immediately a great battle for possession of the invaluable drink.†   (source)
  • Hence it is invaluable as a means of destroying shame.†   (source)
  • He was invaluable to Wynand—as a barometer of public reaction.†   (source)
  • When they took Talland House father and mother gave us—me at any rate—what has been perennial, invaluable.†   (source)
  • Of course, Thora was invaluable to my brother-he always said she was the best secretary he ever had-and he was very fond of her, too.†   (source)
  • When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization—this tea ritual and the detective novel.†   (source)
  • And his invaluable trick of just having come from somewhere else where he is very trusted and important.†   (source)
  • If he must dabble in science, keep him on economics and sociology; don't let him get away from that invaluable "real life".†   (source)
  • Moreover, if you consider any great figure of the past, like Sappho, like the Lady Murasaki, like Emily Brontë, you will find that she is an inheritor as well as an originator, and has come into existence because women have come to have the habit of writing naturally; so that even as a prelude to poetry such activity on your part would be invaluable.†   (source)
  • For help in the long task of bringing my materials into readable form, I wish to thank Mr. Henry Morton Robinson, whose advice greatly assisted me in the first and final stages of the work, Mrs. Peter Geiger, Mrs. Margaret Wing, and Mrs. Helen McMaster, who went over the manuscripts many times and offered invaluable suggestions, and my wife, who has worked with me from first to last, listening, reading, and revising.†   (source)
  • 'If you really want to distinguish yourself over this case, Hastings, I recommendFirst Steps in Russian as an invaluable aid.†   (source)
  • It is one of those invaluable seeds, from which, since it is impossible to have every experience fully, one can grow something that represents other people's experiences.†   (source)
  • If such a feeling is allowed to live, but not allowed to become irresistible and flower into real repentance, it has one invaluable tendency.†   (source)
  • Her jealousy, and alarm, and his increasing evasiveness or rudeness, will be invaluable for the aggravation of the domestic tension, Your affectionate uncle SCREWTAPE†   (source)
  • The words 'Florentine painting' were invaluable to Swann.†   (source)
  • It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.†   (source)
  • I assure you he would be quite invaluable.†   (source)
  • An invaluable safeguard against revolution.†   (source)
  • Both you and Stillwell have influenced me to look upon Stewart as invaluable.†   (source)
  • Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me.†   (source)
  • Gwendolen, your common sense is invaluable.†   (source)
  • Dick,' said my aunt triumphantly, 'give me your hand, for your common sense is invaluable.'†   (source)
  • I'll leave uncle with them, he is an invaluable person, pity I can't introduce you to him now.†   (source)
  • Miss Eyre has been an invaluable companion to me, and a kind and careful teacher to Adele.†   (source)
  • "Here it is," said Athos; and he took the invaluable paper from the pocket of his uniform.†   (source)
  • —Harriet is worth a hundred such—And for a wife—a sensible man's wife—it is invaluable.†   (source)
  • He may prove an invaluably useful man to us.†   (source)
  • There was always the chance that Horrock might say something quite invaluable at the right moment.†   (source)
  • If I take a school an educated woman would be invaluable as a help to me.†   (source)
  • This invaluable friend was a very young woman, and very lately married.†   (source)
  • Ladislaw has been invaluable, most satisfactory.†   (source)
  • I could not rest till I had announced this invaluable discovery to my wife.†   (source)
  • If I have a very large farm, either English or colonial, you will be invaluable as a wife to me; better than a woman out of the largest mansion in the country.†   (source)
  • Madeline found the course of business training upon which her father had insisted to be invaluable to her now.†   (source)
  • Music is invaluable as the ultimate means for awakening our zeal, a power that draws the mind trained for its effects forward and upward.†   (source)
  • But to-night, having finished tea and brushed himself up, he was deep in the perusal of the Twenty-ninth Volume of Pusey's Library of the Fathers, a set of books which he had purchased of a second-hand dealer at a price that seemed to him to be one of miraculous cheapness for that invaluable work.†   (source)
  • Hunter brought the boat round under the stern-port, and Joyce and I set to work loading her with powder tins, muskets, bags of biscuits, kegs of pork, a cask of cognac, and my invaluable medicine chest.†   (source)
  • Nature appears to one, looking at this picture, as some huge, implacable, dumb monster; or still better—a stranger simile—some enormous mechanical engine of modern days which has seized and crushed and swallowed up a great and invaluable Being, a Being worth nature and all her laws, worth the whole earth, which was perhaps created merely for the sake of the advent of that Being.†   (source)
  • I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.†   (source)
  • Mr. Letterblair had let Mrs. Welland know that Mr. Archer had "rendered an invaluable service" to the whole family, and that old Mrs. Manson Mingott had been particularly pleased; and one day when May had gone for a drive with her father in the only vehicle the place produced Mrs. Welland took occasion to touch on a topic which she always avoided in her daughter's presence.†   (source)
  • My dear fellow, you have been invaluable to me in this as in many other cases, and I beg that you will forgive me if I have seemed to play a trick upon you.†   (source)
  • He has given me an extra pair of eyes upon a very active pair of feet, and both have been invaluable.†   (source)
  • Your presence might be invaluable.†   (source)
  • Bunbury is perfectly invaluable.†   (source)
  • 'A most invaluable woman, that, Nickleby,' said Squeers when his consort had hurried away, pushing the drudge before her.†   (source)
  • He was one of those invaluable labourers who can not only turn their hand to everything, but excel in everything they turn their hand to.†   (source)
  • Each moment, however, pressed upon him a conviction of the critical situation in which he had suffered his invaluable trust to be involved through his own confidence.†   (source)
  • He repaid them in kind with large extracts from his invaluable author, Cotton Mather, and added many marvellous events that had taken place in his native State of Connecticut, and fearful sights which he had seen in his nightly walks about Sleepy Hollow.†   (source)
  • That would be invaluable to us in Africa, who have not always any food to eat, and rarely anything to drink.†   (source)
  • These were perilous descents, in which the skill and marvellous coolness of Hans were invaluable to us.†   (source)
  • "And she," said Mrs Smith, "besides nursing me most admirably, has really proved an invaluable acquaintance.†   (source)
  • They acknowledge Mr. Washington's invaluable service in counselling patience and courtesy in such demands; they do not ask that ignorant black men vote when ignorant whites are debarred, or that any reasonable restrictions in the suffrage should not be applied; they know that the low social level of the mass of the race is responsible for much discrimination against it, but they also know, and the nation knows, that relentless color-prejudice is more often a cause than a result of the…†   (source)
  • I feel you would be invaluable to me—that needn't be said—and if you will bide and be my manager, I will make it worth your while."†   (source)
  • My Dear Madam,—Although it is so many years since I profited by your delightful and invaluable instructions, yet I have ever retained the FONDEST and most reverential regard for Miss Pinkerton, and DEAR Chiswick.†   (source)
  • They took her away into a further room, and the medical attendance which had been useless in Troy's case was invaluable in Bathsheba's, who fell into a series of fainting-fits that had a serious aspect for a time.†   (source)
  • Then after long search into the minister's dim interior, and turning over many precious materials, in the shape of high aspirations for the welfare of his race, warm love of souls, pure sentiments, natural piety, strengthened by thought and study, and illuminated by revelation—all of which invaluable gold was perhaps no better than rubbish to the seeker—he would turn back, discouraged, and begin his quest towards another point.†   (source)
  • The cups—not having been used, perhaps, since Hepzibah's youth—had contracted no small burden of dust, which Phoebe washed away with so much care and delicacy as to satisfy even the proprietor of this invaluable china.†   (source)
  • But its contents are invaluable.†   (source)
  • Anatole was not quick-witted, nor ready or eloquent in conversation, but he had the faculty, so invaluable in society, of composure and imperturbable self-possession.†   (source)
  • Besides being well sheltered from the north winds, the vale was covered with a growth of sycamore, dwarf-oak, and pine trees, while in the glens and ravines adjoining there were thickets of olive and mulberry; all at this season of the year invaluable for the support of sheep, goats, and cattle, of which the wandering flocks consisted.†   (source)
  • Whilst I was saddened by the thought of losing the aid of my kind mistress, I was gladdened by the invaluable instruction which, by the merest accident, I had gained from my master.†   (source)
  • These blessings are doubtless invaluable, and I can imagine that, to acquire or to preserve them, a nation may impose upon itself severe temporary restrictions: but still it is well that the nation should know at what price these blessings are purchased.†   (source)
  • 'Done?' returned the old man, pointing to her sister's place, 'where's your affectionate invaluable friend?†   (source)
  • Wine-stains, fruit-stains, beer-stains, water-stains, paint-stains, pitch-stains, any stains, all come out at one rub with the infallible and invaluable composition.†   (source)
  • If my vanity had taken a musical turn, you would have been invaluable; but as it is, I would really rather not sit down before those who must be in the habit of hearing the very best performers.†   (source)
  • The filaments of the leaves make capital thread, while the leaves themselves, bruised, form an invaluable salve.†   (source)
  • "I'm sure you're invaluable."†   (source)
  • So Tamerlane's soldiers often argued with tears in their eyes, whether that invaluable life of his ought to be carried into the thickest of the fight.†   (source)
  • , and his friend and invaluable attendant during sickness, Rebecca, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Rawdon Crawley, C.B.," who was appointed administratrix.†   (source)
  • As a conductress of Indian schools, and a helper amongst Indian women, your assistance will be to me invaluable.†   (source)
  • The title was, "Dan Coopman," wherefore I concluded that this must be the invaluable memoirs of some Amsterdam cooper in the fishery, as every whale ship must carry its cooper.†   (source)
  • He had established himself with Count Bennigsen, who, like all on whom Boris had been in attendance, considered young Prince Drubetskoy an invaluable man.†   (source)
  • In this dilemma, with little or no time for reflection, he suddenly determined to cloak his invaluable friend, at any or every hazard to himself.†   (source)
  • I regard them as invaluable.†   (source)
  • Elizabeth longed to observe that Mr. Bingley had been a most delightful friend; so easily guided that his worth was invaluable; but she checked herself.†   (source)
  • As in decapitating the whale, the operator's instrument is brought close to the spot where an entrance is subsequently forced into the spermaceti magazine; he has, therefore, to be uncommonly heedful, lest a careless, untimely stroke should invade the sanctuary and wastingly let out its invaluable contents.†   (source)
  • By the assistance of our experienced and invaluable friend, the scout, we may find our way from this savage people, but you will have to exert your utmost fortitude.†   (source)
  • Mr. Tucker was invaluable in their walk; and perhaps Mr. Casaubon had not been without foresight on this head, the curate being able to answer all Dorothea's questions about the villagers and the other parishioners.†   (source)
  • She was thankful, truly thankful, that the dear kind Briggs, that the faithful, the invaluable Firkin, had been permitted to remain with their benefactress through her illness.†   (source)
  • If the Baronet of Queen's Crawley had not had the fear of losing his sister's legacy before his eyes, he never would have permitted his dear girls to lose the educational blessings which their invaluable governess was conferring upon them.†   (source)
  • The respect was not diminished when Naumann, after drawing Will aside for a moment and looking, first at a large canvas, then at Mr. Casaubon, came forward again and said— "My friend Ladislaw thinks you will pardon me, sir, if I say that a sketch of your head would be invaluable to me for the St. Thomas Aquinas in my picture there.†   (source)
  • "Alice," she said, "the Huron offers us both life, nay, more than both; he offers to restore Duncan, our invaluable Duncan, as well as you, to our friends—to our father—to our heart-stricken, childless father, if I will bow down this rebellious, stubborn pride of mine, and consent—"†   (source)
  • In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony to be at Cleveland; and as she returned by a different circuit to the house, feeling all the happy privilege of country liberty, of wandering from place to place in free and luxurious solitude, she resolved to spend almost every hour of every day while she remained with the Palmers, in the indulgence of such solitary rambles.†   (source)
  • The invaluable works of our elder writers, I had almost said the works of Shakespeare and Milton, are driven into neglect by frantic novels, sickly and stupid German Tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse.†   (source)
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