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like a boy until dawn and
He slept like a boy until dawn; and he and Hyde had scarcely exchanged another dozen words when the train screamed next day into Delhi station.
— from King--of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure by Talbot Mundy

life and brought up delicately as
Supposin' she had been waited on all her life, and brought up delicately, as Richard said, that was no reason why she need feel so big, and above speaking to a poor girl when she was introduced."
— from Ethelyn's Mistake by Mary Jane Holmes

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