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and leaning over drew in a long
Margaret went to the window, and leaning over, drew in a long breath of the perfumed air.
— from Wild Margaret by Charles Garvice

are lifted out dazed in a landing
Soon the trout of the pool float belly uppermost, and are lifted out, dazed, in a landing net.
— from Poachers and Poaching by Watson, John, F.L.S.

and lived on Dall Island and later
There is a hazy belief in the minds of the older people, handed down through generations, that in the earliest days there came to these shores from seaward, a people of unknown origin who landed and lived on Dall Island, and later spread along the southern coast of Prince of Wales Island.
— from The Whale House of the Chilkat by George Thornton Emmons

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