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being used for knocking in nails
The sound came out of a red distance and grew rapidly louder, resolving itself at last into the regular tap-tap of a hammer which is being used for knocking in nails. — from Wastralls: A Novel by C. A. (Catharine Amy) Dawson Scott
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