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"I've come—I hope you won't mind—Mrs. Bell, Elfrida has been quoting Rousseau in her compositions, and I thought you'd like to know."

From A Daughter of To-Day by Duncan, Sara Jeannette

Oh, it goes well on a day like this," he rejoined in his amiable drawling manner; "the doctor has been quoting his favourite verse of Horace to us.

From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

He has been quoting a mosaic of Old Testament passages from the Psalms and Isaiah.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Maclaren, Alexander