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fully employed in negotiating the exceedingly difficult
We did not wait to see how they fared, but, as soon as they were fairly out of our way, tacked again, and half an hour later found ourselves fully employed in negotiating the exceedingly difficult navigation of the narrows, which we successfully accomplished after several exceedingly close shaves of the rocks that border the passage on either hand.
— from A Middy in Command: A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood

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