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Not that there is any anticlimax of sentiment, but the colloquial mode of expression shocks the reader who has been perusing the more dignified lines which go before.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

One big book, for instance, which is no evil, but a good, is Kelly's Post-Office Directory, with which he has been favoured, and which he has been perusing with avidity ever since it arrived.

From Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 62, January 20, 1872 by Various