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sinners in some town or village and
I find a love to poor perishing sinners in some town or village, and I go to persuade them to be reconciled to God: Many of them use me ill, not only with reviling language, but even with sticks, or stones, or clods, or rotten eggs.
— from A Solemn Caution Against the Ten Horns of Calvinism by Thomas Taylor

so it spreads to other villages and
The men communicate the news in the ordinary way adopted by these people of shouting it across the valleys; and so it spreads to other villages, and even to other communities.
— from The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson

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