By way of

From Shakespeare to Milton by way of the English Bible, our language has been shaped by humanist ideas.

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Intensity was more usually reached by way of the solemn than by way of the brilliant.

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“I always go over the wall, by way of the plum tree,” said Matilda.

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In 1919, demobilisation specials from Purfleet, Essex, to the North, usually made up of nondescript, almost paintless or grey stock which had seen long wartime service, chalked with slogans, were worked through by way of Bromley and the North London line […].

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