The sea has a rude, pistolling sort of odour, that takes you in the nostrils like snuff, and carries with it a fine sentiment of open water and tall ships; but the smell of a forest, which comes nearest to this in tonic quality, surpasses it by many degrees in the quality of softness.
— from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson
He then sailed home again, reaching Portugal "safe and sound, Deo gratias ," but leaving behind him hatred and terror and a very quaint idea of these Christians who felt it their duty to exterminate all followers of Mohammed.
— from A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge
Encouraging friends who have a drug problem to seek help and reporting persons selling drugs to parents and the principal.
— from What Works: Schools Without Drugs by United States. Department of Education
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