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by a process that is so easy
They have been papered and clothed—and tarred and feathered, maybe—and then encased in lead by a process that is so easy as to be laughable, and yet as ingenious as any one thing the wire miller does.
— from Outspinning the Spider: The Story of Wire and Wire Rope by John Kimberly Mumford

believed and proclaimed that I should erelong
But I believed and proclaimed that I should, erelong, fly to St. Louis and claim and receive the one-hundred-thousand-dollar reward offered by the Commission of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition for the most efficient airship to be exhibited.
— from A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography by Clifford Whittingham Beers

Brasses and Picturesque Tombs in St Edmund
Early Brasses and Picturesque Tombs in St. Edmund's Chapel 66 12.
— from Westminster Abbey by Smith, A. Murray, Mrs.

Brasses and Picturesque Tombs in St Edmund
Early Brasses and Picturesque Tombs in St. Edmund's Chapel ST. EDMUND'S CHAPEL We have already seen part of this chapel.
— from Westminster Abbey by Smith, A. Murray, Mrs.


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