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killed hundreds of buffalo and rafts
"Buck says the Cap has killed hundreds of buffalo and rafts of Indians—heaps of them.
— from Miss Dividends: A Novel by Archibald Clavering Gunter

knew his own benefactors and relatives
Or, to come nearer in the kind of fact, if a man represented his family fortune as having been bequeathed by a maiden aunt in the last generation, would any man say otherwise than that doubtless the man knew his own benefactors and relatives best?
— from The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Thomas De Quincey

Kit holding on by a runner
Now the iron was landed, she rolled violently, and one hot afternoon, Kit, holding on by a runner, leaned against the bulwarks.
— from Kit Musgrave's Luck by Harold Bindloss

ketch hold of but a rim
“There ain’t nothin’ to ketch hold of but a rim of snow.
— from The Camp in the Snow; Or, Besieged by Danger by William Murray Graydon

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