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heart and endanger my own neck
“If I tell her that her lover is dead, I break her heart, and endanger my own neck; on the other hand, to keep up this mad game requires more subtlety than I possess, and the Devil’s own cheek.
— from The Second Dandy Chater by Tom Gallon

hundred and eighty millions of newspapers
Besides these, there were more than eighty-seven millions of post-cards, and very nearly two hundred and eighty millions of newspapers and book packets; so that a grand total of nearly fourteen hundred millions of all descriptions of postal matter is reached.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 686 February 17, 1877 by Various

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