Neither, I said, can there be any question that the guardian who is to keep anything should have eyes rather than no eyes?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato
She got Sam Peters to make her a big store cupboard, which was placed in one corner of the kitchen, and saved her endless runs into the sitting-room, where formerly she had been obliged to keep her groceries, tubs of lard, and that sort of thing.
— from Daughters of the Dominion: A Story of the Canadian Frontier by Bessie Marchant
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