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pilgrims are now deep in the hollow
The pilgrims are now deep in the hollow cone.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

plunged a new dagger into the heart
Here he threw himself upon a seat, called for a cup of wine, and plunged a new dagger into the heart of the queen, by declaring that her husband had advised the whole.
— from Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

priest and not delivered into the hands
The cup, too, was retained in the hands of the priest, and not 'delivered' into the hands of the communicant.
— from The Secrets of the Great City A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the Vices, the Mysteries, Miseries and Crimes of New York City by James Dabney McCabe

painting a new design in three hours
It was now past one o'clock: the King was to arrive at four, and there was no painting a new design in three hours.
— from Dry Fish and Wet: Tales from a Norwegian Seaport by Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen

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