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charged into some coral rock and

The craft that Cook was aboard charged into some coral rock, and if his vessel didn't go down, it was thanks to the circumstance that a piece of coral broke off in the collision and plugged the very hole it had made in the hull.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

case I shall certainly remain a

I may fail hopelessly at the outset of my artistic career, and in that case I shall certainly remain a teacher of language.
— from A Roman Singer by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

course I started crying right away

And, of course, I started crying right away, and hugged Marina.
— from Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

court in Schleswig Count Rantzau at

Count Brandt joined the court in Schleswig; Count Rantzau at Traventhal.
— from Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 2 (of 3) Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of England by Wraxall, Lascelles, Sir

cavalry infantry should close rapidly and

In attacking dismounted cavalry, infantry should close rapidly and endeavor to prevent remounting.
— from Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19) by United States. War Department

come in since continued Reuben and

"The muddle of the world and the theologies has come in since," continued Reuben, "and the base professions I see around me, and the hypocrisies and the cant, have taken away the glow.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

clad in sport clothes rough and

The late-staying guests were clad in sport clothes, rough and warm and smart,—for it was one of the smartest clubs in the Metropolitan district.
— from Shot With Crimson by George Barr McCutcheon

composed in similarly constructed rhymeless Alexandrines

Less significance is to be attached to the fact that Brysket, in a poem on Sidney’s death, entitled The Mourning Muse of Thestylis (printed with Spenser’s works, Globe edition, p. 563), makes Alexandrines rhyme together, not in couplets, but in an arbitrary order; further, that Surrey and Blennerhasset occasionally composed in similarly constructed rhymeless Alexandrines (cf.
— from A History of English Versification by J. (Jakob) Schipper

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