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run escapes made and dangers evaded
While this was going on the poor people were recounting many marvellous tales of terrible risks run, escapes made, and dangers evaded.
— from The Rover of the Andes: A Tale of Adventure on South America by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Robert Emmet made a desperate effort
Two years after the first Imperial Parliament met in London the Irish patriot, Robert Emmet, made a desperate effort to free his country (1803).
— from The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery


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