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means or other never satisfactorily explained to
His father had been a rich man; his father's family, from which they held themselves aloof, were rich people, and his hope was in recovering the ground which, by some means or other never satisfactorily explained to him, the Suffolk Street lodgers had managed to lose.
— from Mattie:—A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) by F. W. (Frederick William) Robinson

miles of ocean no ship ever traversed
And across the ocean his traffic passed in definite lines; there were hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean no ship ever traversed except by mischance.
— from The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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