Citations:august

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English citations of august

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  • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
    But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no robed investiture.
  • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
    This august hump, if I mistake not, rises over one of the larger vertebrae, and is, therefore, in some sort, the outer convex mould of it.
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