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heavy of barrel and narrow of bore
On the forecastle was mounted the latest model breech–loading cannon, very heavy of barrel and narrow of bore, a weapon that would figure in the Universal Exhibition of 1867.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Humbly offered by a native of Boston
“Humbly offered by a native of Boston.”
— from Curiosities of History: Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 by William W. (William Willder) Wheildon

had only been a night on board
The slaves had only been a night on board her; but the stench was so awful, from so many unfortunate niggers being squeezed so tightly together like herrings in a barrel, and under a hot sun too, that we were longing to send the schooner away to Sierra Leone, and get rid of the horrid smell, which was worse than the swamps ashore!
— from Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

heap of bracken and no one bearing
the island may flare up like a heap of bracken, and no one bearing a French name, or known to have French sympathies, will be safe.
— from The Isle of Unrest by Henry Seton Merriman

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