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By OLIVER OPTIC NEW EDITION REVISED
THE BOAT CLUB OR THE BUNKERS OF RIPPLETON By OLIVER OPTIC NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED NEW YORK THE MERSHON COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright , 1896, By LEE AND SHEPARD IN MEMORY OF MY NEPHEW , WILLIAM PARKER JEWETT Who Died January 4, 1884 , TO WHOM WAS ORIGINALLY DEDICATED AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION "
— from The Boat Club; or, The Bunkers of Rippleton by Oliver Optic

by order of Nero expired reciting
Lucan, when he had his veins opened by order of Nero, expired reciting a passage from his Pharsalia, in which he had described the wound of a dying soldier.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli

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