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In this country, as Emerson says, "Every rider drives too fast."
— from The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks
Occasionally, in response to a note of invitation, they all in a moment leave off feeding and. fly to one spot, and, forming a close cluster, and emitting short, excited, rapidly repeated notes, display their wings, like beautiful flags grouped loosely together: some hold Music and Dancing in Nature.
— from The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
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