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and the train rolled into the Elberthal station
I was weeping as I returned it to him, and the train rolled into the Elberthal station.
— from The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

and threatened to revolt if the emperor should
But Sergius I (687–701) successfully resisted the emperor and escaped arrest and deposition because the people of central Italy supported him and threatened to revolt if the emperor should seize and carry away their pope.
— from A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age by Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph) Thatcher

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