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stronger and more permanently upright limb
Short distances between such branchings is desirable, because it makes a stronger and more permanently upright limb, capable of sustaining much weight of foliage and fruit.
— from One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson

stood a man picking up leaves
"Then off she set up into the home-field, and there stood a man picking up leaves.
— from Tales from the Fjeld: A Second Series of Popular Tales by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

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