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Brother, is not this Gaul that you lay waste with as much inveterateness as the conquerors themselves, is she not our dearly beloved country, our mother?

From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Sue, Eugène

And oh, wasn't this a far, far worse sort of inveterateness than the Pritchard sort?

From Elsie Marley, Honey by Gray, Joslyn