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It's not everyone who has the lamentableness of a Sir John Evans.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

If our fiction took it on the human ground, and ascertained its inner pathos, its real lamentableness, it might do a very good thing with those clubmen and society girls and grandes dames.

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean