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It was, doubtless, impossible to do more than diminish and restrain the evil, which was the most annoying of the smaller troubles attending the anomalous half-military and half-civil government of the department.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 by Cox, Jacob Dolson

"The same, at your service!" replied the black man, with a half-civil nod.

From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Defoe, Daniel