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manner always certain to result in defeat
The head that had hitherto guided them with those imperious eyes—now glaring ghastly from the extremity of the severed trunk—was no longer of authority among them; and they acted in that undecided and irregular manner always certain to result in defeat.
— from The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid


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