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to us please Lord Ernest Sitting
Will you call him to us, please, Lord Ernest?" Sitting as I sat, I could not see the person indicated.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

this universal prairie land east south
The traveller, as he glides upon this universal prairie land, east, south and west of Chicago, viewing its limitless fertility seen far away in every direction over the monotonous level, as if looking across an ocean, cannot help recalling Wordsworth's pleasant lines: "The streams with softest sound are flowing, The grass you almost hear it growing, You hear it now, if e'er you can."
— from America, Volume 2 (of 6) by Joel Cook

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