Example Sentences

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The book was for many days snubbed, buffeted, browbeaten; and the care fully-woven tapestry was torn into shreds and trampled upon; and it seemed that the patiently sculptured shrine was overtured and despised and desecrated.

From St. Elmo by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)