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To this class, all that is AWFUL is bad, in fact it is THE evil par excellence.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
The Mediterranean, the blue sea par excellence, "the great sea" of the Hebrews, "the sea" of the Greeks, the "mare nostrum" of the Romans, bordered by orange-trees, aloes, cacti, and sea-pines; embalmed with the perfume of the myrtle, surrounded by rude mountains, saturated with pure and transparent air, but incessantly worked by underground fires; a perfect battlefield in which Neptune and Pluto still dispute the empire of the world!
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Verne, Jules View in context
Bonds were issued, and made their appearance on 'Change; "Phileas Fogg bonds" were offered at par or at a premium, and a great business was done in them.
Around The World In Eighty Days by Verne, Jules View in context
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