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to expect but a lingering death I
In a moment my mind was made up, the woman who followed had nothing to expect but a lingering death; I should be doing her a service if I shortened her misery.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

the empty boat and lay down in
An idea struck me, and climbing on the bulwarks, I stepped into the empty boat and lay down in the bottom of it.
— from The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle

the empty boat and lay down in
An idea struck me, and, climbing on the bulwarks, I stepped into the empty boat and lay down in the bottom of it.
— from The Gully of Bluemansdyke, and Other stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

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