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Imposing silence, Grimaud put out the little night lamp, then knelt down and poured into the lieutenant’s ear a recital melodramatic enough not to require play of feature to give it pith.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
For a few minutes the boat went along, riding more evenly, now that it had better headway.
— from The Motor Boys on the Atlantic; or, The Mystery of the Lighthouse by Clarence Young
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