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• Soon after the arrival of Mrs. Campbell, dinner was announced by Abboye. He came into the drawing room resplendent in his gold-and-white turban. […] His cummerbund matched the turban in gold lines.
• I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
• Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,[...], down the nave to the western door.[...]At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
• Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese[...]began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death.
• How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?
• I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles.