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and mangoes up to the echoing roof
Creeping up quietly to the entrance, Fil and Moro threw stones and oranges and mangoes up to the echoing roof. “Lie down quick,” shouted Fil’s father.
— from Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines by John Stuart Thomson

and mules upon the transports en route
They have dynamited our factories and warehouses; they have burned shops and planted bombs on ships; they have thrown trains from the track; they have poisoned the horses and mules upon the transports en route to France; they have fouled the springs of knowledge through their hired reporters; with all the cunning developed by long practice, they have spread their insidious and perilous influences into the remotest regions of the land.
— from The Blot on the Kaiser's 'Scutcheon by Newell Dwight Hillis

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