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sloughs and matted brushwood upon deserted
And though the moorland pack-horse and the rambling besom-maker stumble and get entangled in grass, and sloughs, and matted brushwood, upon deserted roads, still that nimble Mercury, Thought, can flit over the silent waste, side by side with the shades of those formidable soldiers who have now slept nearly two thousand years in the cold ground.
— from Lancashire Sketches Third Edition by Edwin Waugh

stake and must be upheld despite
There may be times when a pure principle is at stake and must be upheld despite all hazards, but there are times when there is no principle at stake whatever.
— from The Story of Isaac Brock Hero, Defender and Saviour of Upper Canada, 1812 by Walter R. Nursey

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