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club hired apartments in which a library and
After the boating season closed, the yacht club hired apartments, in which a library and reading-room were fitted up; and the members not only enjoyed [340] the meetings every week, but they profited by their reading and their study.
— from The Yacht Club; or, The Young Boat-Builder by Oliver Optic

could hold an ivory wheel as large as
If Nature had been niggardly, the lobe at least could be enlarged by boring it and thrusting in a small wooden peg, then a larger one, and so on until it could hold an ivory wheel as large as a quoit, and hung down to the shoulders.
— from Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Edward Hamilton Aitken

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