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the ashes from the roofs and main streets
The goggles and eye-screens had disappeared, but the streets were anything but comfortable, for some six thousand men were at work clearing the ashes from the roofs and main streets and piling them in the middle of the narrow streets, making the passage of vehicles very difficult and the sidewalks far from comfortable for foot passengers.
— from The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire by Charles Morris

thought and for this reason accepted my somewhat
As I thought, and for this reason accepted my somewhat difficult mission.
— from Redemption and two other plays by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

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