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services like email downloading of software
The surcharge is US$18/hour between 08:00 and 18:00, and US$6.00/hour for some services, like email, downloading of software, "chat," conferences, and multi-user games.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

somethin like everything depended on speed
This guy Calder's door is open and he's sittin' at a big desk writin' away on somethin' like everything depended on speed.
— from Alex the Great by H. C. (Harry Charles) Witwer

Sometimes lurking enemies dragged off stragglers
Sometimes lurking enemies dragged off stragglers from the edges of the shoal; sometimes a great fish drove through their millions with his mouth wide open, swallowing all that came within his path.
— from The Sun's Babies by Edith Howes

such loss ever deeper or stronger
And is the feeling of such loss ever deeper, or stronger than when a holy and a sanctified old age, around which gathered the gentlest ministries of earth, and the most precious ones of heaven, and which glowed in the high place where God had set it with the calm, mild glory of the evening star, has been taken away from us, transformed, though our eyes can not behold it, into the freshness of eternal youth?
— from A Sermon Preached in Christ Church, Hartford, January 29th, 1865 In Commemoration of the Rt. Rev. Thomas Church Brownell, D. D., LL. D., Third Bishop of Connecticut, and Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States by his Assistant and Successor by J. (John) Williams


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