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Dan always leading and sometimes I saw
So we toiled upwards, Dan always leading, and sometimes I saw him turning and knew he was speaking; but the wind cut the words as they left his lips, and bore them tearing and shrieking to the sea below.
— from The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars

down a long and steep incline she
When, on the contrary, she saw him pass the summit and proceed rapidly down a long and steep incline, she was seized, first with surprise, secondly with indignation, and lastly with alarm.
— from Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

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