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find are upset by every reverse
"A plucky man never desponds, sir; but women, you'll find, are upset by every reverse."
— from Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania by Bayard Taylor

father and uncle busily eating rolls
In due time the condemned made their appearance, in a cart, accompanied by Charles and James Jamieson, two youths, sitting beside their father and uncle, busily eating rolls, and, to all appearance, totally indifferent to the fate of their relatives, and the awful circumstances surrounding them.
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson

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