After an Anglo-French compact, in August, 1890, for the partition of protectorates and zones of influence in Africa, the British Prime Minister alluded rather scoffingly in the House of Lords to the lack of value of the Sahara assigned to the French.
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Then he guffawed scoffingly like a lunatic although the pleasure soon extinguished itself.
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Dacre laughed again fiercely, scoffingly.
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Ethel M. Dell