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• “It was nae sic thing,” said Madge, whose unretentive memory let out, in the eagerness of contradiction, all that she would have most wished to keep concealed, had her...
• Hogarth personated the spectre, but so unretentive -- (we are told) -- was his memory that though the speech consisted only of two lines he was unable to get them by...
• The old Danaïde only saw an opportunity for pouring another people into her ill-made and unretentive cask.
• ` ` It was nae sic thing, '' said Madge, whose unretentive memory let out, in the eagerness of contradiction, all that she would have most wished to keep concealed, had...