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How striking, from its artful suppression of strikingness, is the first following, and what a wide, easy sweep of well-bred satire it contains!—

From Classic French Course in English by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

But man, urged on by the desire to say what he means with more novelty, strikingness, or force, applied the word to ideas that have no surfaces to be uneven.

From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)

Between them they manufactured tickets by the dozen and by the score—tickets which, while possessing nearly all the smartness and finish of Mr. Chawner's tickets, were much superior to these in originality and strikingness.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold

Mrs. Venables was not pleased with Betty, but the strikingness of the present occasion seemed to unite them.

From The Furnace by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

How striking, from its artful suppression of strikingness, is the first following, and what a wide, easy sweep of well-bred satire it contains:

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver