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I well recollect an adventure, the relation of which will set this system in a clearer light than if I were prosing for hours in the abstract.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund

You were prosing only yesterday afternoon about work and duty, as if nothing could separate you from Harmouth.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 by Various