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a number from lack of water
“I was down there two years ago when we bought some herds from Perez, and lost quite a number from lack of water before the vaqueros got them to La Partida wells.
— from The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Marah Ellis Ryan

are now fairly launched on what
You are now fairly launched on what I hope will prove to you another Pactolus.
— from Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

anchored not from lack of water
We steamed up the river for about seventeen miles and there anchored, not from lack of water, but on account of the risk of turning the ship round against a strong current in the somewhat narrowing channel.
— from Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age To-day in Dutch New Guinea by A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) Wollaston

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