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Take one small spoonful every two hours
"'Take one small spoonful every two hours,' says he.
— from Roads of Destiny by O. Henry

tenderness of spirit seems ever to have
This tenderness of spirit seems ever to have actuated Johnson, and he is surely greatest when he breathes it forth over the sorrows and miseries of man.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler by Samuel Johnson

the other side so effectually that he
As he emerged from the door I promptly—and I fear rather roughly—forced the belaying-pin between his teeth and secured it there with the aid of my pocket handkerchief, Smellie at the same moment pinioning him from the other side so effectually that he was rendered quite incapable of resistance.
— from The Congo Rovers: A Story of the Slave Squadron by Harry Collingwood

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