Example Sentences

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Of the wit of the “Provincial Letters,” their wit and their controversial effectiveness, the specimens given will have afforded readers some approximate idea.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

The foregoing chapters will have afforded a sufficiently distinct view of the expedition to enable the public to form their own opinion of the position of the slave trade.

From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir