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Standon all shape becoming lost in a
A deluge of rays fell upon them, defining every angle of Watley Rocks and floating over the grasslands of Standon, all shape becoming lost in a huge embrasure filled with the almost imperceptible outlines of the Wever Hills.
— from A Mummer's Wife by George Moore

should a screw be loose in any
"We shall pass never another smithy this livelong day; and should a screw be loose in any of their shoes, it would be rather a bring up for us."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various

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