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To own the truth, I expected some well-digested lie; but he merely said that he had promised secrecy on that subject, and must therefore be excused from giving me any information.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

It is at least a well-digested and well-developed measure, complete in itself, and laying down the grounds on which it proceeds, and the precise mode of its operation.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 by Various

The instructions which Don Quixote gave to Sancho Panza, before he went to his government; with other well-digested matter 319 LXXIII.

From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

Wolf says: "The amount of intellectual food that can be got from well-digested scholarship is a very insignificant item."

From We Philologists Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Volume 8 by Kennedy, J. M. (John McFarland)

This is a plain, unaffected, but exceedingly well-digested, catalogue of a very extraordinary collection of books in all departments of literature.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall