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It is a long way from the plaints of George Horton to the invectives of Claude McKay, from the obviousness of Frances Harper to the complexness of Anne Spencer.

From The Book of American Negro Poetry by Johnson, James Weldon

Also a fantastic and finely ironic vision of Joseph and Potiphar's wife rose before him and the vision of himself as Joseph irked a certain complexness of his mentality.

From The Head of the House of Coombe by Burnett, Frances Hodgson