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came ringing up from the yard
" The little girls leave the chamber, and soon their happy voices came ringing up from the yard.
— from Finger Posts on the Way of Life by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

crime remains unsuspected for ten years
The murderer whose crime remains unsuspected for ten years can laugh at the police-officers who discover his guilt in the eleventh.
— from Aurora Floyd, Vol. 3 Fifth Edition by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

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