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something hard and digging eagerly round
After two new strokes he struck upon something hard, and, digging eagerly round it, found a quart-can, full of earth.
— from The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

sustained he announced decisively eh Reddy
"Appeal sustained," he announced decisively, "eh, Reddy?"
— from The Luck of the Mounted: A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police by Ralph S. (Ralph Selwood) Kendall

shall have a desperate end replied
" "Mine has been a desperate life, and it shall have a desperate end," replied Ernest, with a sullen, deadly smile on his bloodless lips; but trying to assume a tone of reckless indifference, he added, "I never was one to choke upon the tail!
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

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