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sea has a rude pistolling sort
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

sailed home again reaching Portugal safe
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

seek help and reporting persons selling
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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