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The gallery would have encored him if he had played with one finger, three mistakes to every bar.

From The Head of Kay's by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

They have encored his effusion, and do you hear?—he is singing it over again.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Willis, Nathaniel Parker