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by a careful Cornish housewife until some
The eggs were of peculiar mottled exterior, and when tasted had such a strong fish-like flavour as to suggest that they might have been laid by the gannet in its lifetime, and stowed away by a careful Cornish housewife until some stranger chanced to visit that remote spot.
— from The Moon Rock by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

breeze as ceaselessly confirmed her unflagging speed
Hugh bore it, sitting silent, while the great boat, so humanly alive and aglow in every part, ceaselessly breathed above and quivered below, and the ruffling breeze as ceaselessly confirmed her unflagging speed.
— from Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

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