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cunning reasoners and being by experience
Sometimes the monkeys, when on the ground looking after those that have fallen, become victims to the like accident; but these creatures are cunning reasoners, and being by experience aware of the danger, will scarce ever go under a juvia-tree, but when passing one always make a wide circuit around it.
— from Odd People: Being a Popular Description of Singular Races of Man by Mayne Reid

countries rocky and broken by exposed
These slopes are not, as in most mountain countries, rocky and broken by exposed ledges.
— from The Heart of the Alleghanies; or, Western North Carolina by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler

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