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my officers upstairs gave him the
I went back to the bus station and I called one of my officers upstairs, gave him the names of two other officers, told him to get those two officers and not tell anyone even in the office where they were going, mark Ruby transferred temporarily, which means coming to the office or going for some fingerprints or anything, mark him transferred temporarily, bring him down to the jail elevator at the bottom of the jail, put two of them to stay in the jail elevator with him.
— from Warren Commission (04 of 26): Hearings Vol. IV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

many of us gathered here this
"We have, I believe, many of us, gathered here this morning more by a new, strange, common instinct, than by mere force of Sunday habit.
— from The Mark of the Beast by Sidney Watson

mass of unnaturally golden hair the
In absolute repose, if one could forget her mass of unnaturally golden hair, the forced and constant smile, the too liberal use of rouge and powder, the nervous motions of her head, it was easily to be realised that there were still neglected attractions about her face and figure.
— from The Vanished Messenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim


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