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a revolver bullet in their epigastric region
What will your Democratic Dilke, or Ouvrier Odger—who may, in this “speech-gagged,” “oppressed” country, heap scurrilous abuse on royalty and overhaul the washing bills of her Majesty without let or hindrance—say, for the “liberty of speech” on the other side; where, if they were to utter a word in favour of the conquered Confederates, amongst a certain school of “black republicans,” they would run the risk of having a revolver bullet in their epigastric region before they knew where they were?
— from She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

all right below in the engine room
It came as soon as Percy Simmons hailed the young skipper through the speaking tube, and told him that everything was all right below in the engine room.
— from The Border Boys Along the St. Lawrence by John Henry Goldfrap

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