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heavier and less easily yielding stratum
If, in the side-wheel one wheel is part of the time out, the other has, at any rate, the whole force of the engines, and the floats sink to and take hold on a denser, heavier, and less easily yielding stratum of water; so that the progress is nearly the same.
— from Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Thomas Rainey

has a laughing eye Yet she
Jenny has a laughing eye, Yet she is most wondrous shy.
— from When hearts are trumps by Tom Hall

has at length enervated your steadfast
The air of this cloister has at length enervated your steadfast mind.
— from A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Felix Dahn

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