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A little later on Captains Cox and
A little later on Captains Cox and Persse were taken by Colonel Wood to the edge of the krantzes on the right front of the cattle laager, where the discomfited and disheartened Zulus were retiring from the direct fire.
— from The Story of the Zulu Campaign by Edmund Verney Wyatt Edgell

a low line of chalky cliffs and
Kingsworth was a moderate-sized old-fashioned house, standing amid bare undulating downs above a low line of chalky cliffs and looking over the sea.
— from Kingsworth; or, The Aim of a Life by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

a like lot of Cumberland coal always
Would not a like lot of Cumberland coal always sell in Philadelphia?
— from The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. by William Still


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