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them a rusty spike every now
But the idea never entered their heads that a fortune was lying buried in the sand that covered the poor old wreck that had been so constantly before their eyes for almost a year, and when they found money like pebbles along the beach, it never struck them that it could have been washed out of those crumbling ribs, whose only value had been that they gave them a rusty spike every now and then. — from Within the Capes by Howard Pyle
them and Rena sensitive enough not
For I was too troubled in my mind to talk about them, and Rena sensitive enough not to bring them up. — from Preferred Risk by Edson McCann
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