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gave uneasy gasping grunts in
They gave uneasy, gasping grunts in their haste.
— from The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Girl upon good Grounds is
He plainly sees, that the Girl, upon good Grounds is very pliable, but she's a little past the years of being dandled and kist out of her Reason: He or any man else (any Tooth good Barber) with Honour and Estate may go far with her; but Demonstration is the only Argument that must carry her Cause.
— from The Notorious Impostor (1692); Diego Redivivus (1692) by Elkanah Settle

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Gen. U. G. G. I., Toronto Ewing, M., Sutton, G. H., and Officer, C. B. Jr. , 1954, Seismic refraction measurements in the Atlantic Ocean, Part VI:
— from The Floors of the Ocean: 1. The North Atlantic Text to accompany the physiographic diagram of the North Atlantic by Bruce C. Heezen

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