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breathless loom of cloud hang still
It was like the bursting of one of those squalls that come up with a breathless loom of cloud, hang still and brooding, and then flash without warning into tempest.
— from The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories by Perceval Gibbon

better look out Cis he said
“You better look out, Cis,” he said.
— from The Delectable Mountains by Arthur Colton

beacon light of Calvary had sunk
The landmarks of earlier years were swept away; the beacon light of Calvary had sunk below her horizon.
— from Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

be lots of chances he said
"There'll be lots of chances," he said shortly, his voice fierce, his black eyes very gentle.
— from The Short Cut by Jackson Gregory

British lines of Camulodunum had seemed
The "old British lines" of Camulodunum had seemed to the veteran colonists of so little use when they were attacked that they made their only stand, and that to no avail, in the Temple of Claudius.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

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