Example Sentences

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I can as ill endure a suspicious and misinterpretable word as a fault; and of the grossest flatteries there is this good use, that they tell us what we should be.

From A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by Saintsbury, George

I can as ill endure a suspicion and misinterpretable word as a fault.”

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John