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and returned just as Violet and
He was obliged at length to desist, and returned just as Violet and Mr. Martindale had succeeded in moving Theodora to a slippery horse-hair sofa.
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

and routed Jourdain at Vittoria and
In July, 1813, a month after the formation of Lord Liverpool's ministry, he routed Marmont at Salamanca; in 1813 he took Madrid, and routed Jourdain at Vittoria; and, having subsequently defeated Soult at Sauroren, he crossed the French frontier in October.]
— from The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge

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