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tending to arouse strong disagreement
- The vicar of their pleasant rural parish was not a controversialist, but a good hand at whist, and one who had a joke always ready for a blooming female parishioner.4.1 -- Book 4 Chapter 1 -- A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet (57% in)
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