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Grandpa repaired electronic equipment and ran
Kay’s personal housekeeper served salads and fruit juice in the corporate lunch room, and his eighty-six-year-old father, known around the plant as “Grandpa,” repaired electronic equipment and ran a forklift.
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman

generally rallied every effort and rattled
Determined to use every effort to deceive him, lest he should betray to her parents the real cause of her sufferings, Emmeline generally rallied every effort and rattled on with him, as from a child she had been accustomed, therefore it was no wonder the worthy surgeon was deceived; and often, very often, did the poor girl wish she could deceive herself as easily.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar


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