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an unknown sandbank he even prepared
Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the presence of an unknown sandbank; he even prepared to determine its exact position when two columns of water, projected by the mysterious object, shot with a hissing noise a hundred and fifty feet up into the air.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

away upon some hunting expedition planned
He rose with the first of the tardy light, to find that Gaston was already off and away upon some hunting expedition planned overnight.
— from In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince by Evelyn Everett-Green

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