Show Off picks himself up sobered and looks around for other occupation.
— from Arqtiq: A Study of the Marvels at the North Pole by Anna Adolph
Upon reaching the Mackerel camp, I found all the spectacled warriors under arms for a fray, the unaccommodating Confederacies on the other side of Paris having urged some rifled objections to the construction of a pontoon bridge across Duck Lake.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 3 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell
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