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half a mile and the entire distance
The length of the run must be at least half a mile, and the entire distance was covered without a single fall or stumble.
— from Ski-running by Willi Rickmer Rickmers

heart and mortification at their ejection daily
I have always believed that the thousand calumnies which the federalists, in bitterness of heart, and mortification at their ejection, daily invented against me, were carried to him by their busy intriguers, and made some impression.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 5 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

have a morn And to each day
"But swift or slow the days will pass, The longest night will have a morn, And to each day is duly born A night from Time's inverted glass."
— from Rose à Charlitte by Marshall Saunders

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