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sunny curls and laughing eyes ran
CHAPTER V. "Don, Don, me's tumin'," and the baby of the farm, a little child with sunny curls and laughing eyes, ran past the great barns of Hollywood.
— from A Beautiful Possibility by Edith Ferguson Black

Spaniard could at less expense raise
He could not have made a more inauspicious suggestion to the timorous James; but Ralegh did not realize how the King was influenced against him to such an extent that he would be quick to think that the man who could raise so many men to fight the Spaniard, could at less expense raise them to fight his own Majesty.
— from Great Ralegh by Hugh De Sélincourt

Scuti cristâ articulari latâ et reflexâ
Scuti cristâ articulari latâ et reflexâ.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

soup cook a little extra rice
Again, when planning tomato rice soup, cook a little extra rice in the tomato broth.
— from The Food Question: Health and Economy by Various

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