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blow about freely from every direction
Here, of course, the air cannot blow about freely from every direction, because the walls and doors and windows are shutting you in on every side.
— from The Child's Day by Woods Hutchinson

bear a few fruit even during
The Burr Knot is covered with small excrescences, which emit roots so readily that a branch with blossom-buds may be stuck in the ground, and will root and bear a few fruit even during the first year.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

blarney and frish flowers every day
“A bit of blarney, and frish flowers every day in front of her photygraph, and things right for Mr. Gerald, is all she wants.
— from A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

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