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Then she leaned back again and fussed around in her bag, ostentatiously bringing out a clean handkerchief, though she really had been detaching the pages which contained the notes from her loose-leaf note-book.

From The Enchanted Barn by Hill, Grace Livingston

Of late, however, Vane had been detaching himself from the group of more intense Parliamentarians and seeing prospects for his ideas from conjunction, rather with the Army-men.

From The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 by Masson, David