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It is wonderful how the old weather-stained and smoke-blackened Abbey shames down this brand-newness; not that the Parliament Houses are not fine objects to look at, too.—II.

From Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The brand-newness of Charles Waterlow's game had already been a bewilderment to Mr. Probert.

From The Reverberator by James, Henry