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beak head and neck grey shoulders
Ergeb has a peculiarly inflated beak; head and neck grey, shoulders and back olive-green, breast and belly citron-yellow, wing and tail-feathers whitish edged and tipped.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

before him a noble gateway stood
As he stood wondering, like a man in a dream, the other peri waved her hand and bade him turn and see; and, lo! before him a noble gateway stood open.
— from The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

but he achieved no great success
He wrote a life of Canning, and he brought out an annotated edition of the British poets; but he achieved no great success.
— from An Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope

be hurrying along now girls said
"I think we'd better be hurrying along, now, girls," said David in a natural voice.
— from Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls by Josephine Chase

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