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The uneasy Prussian listened eagerly to these confused sounds.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
Gen. Hunter had his headquarters in a large white house not far away, and night after night I have sat on the upper porch listening entranced to the regimental band, as it played Hail Columbia, Star Spangled Banner, Red, White and Blue, Rally round the Flag, and America.
— from Recollections of the Civil War by Maud E. Morrow
His men were habited in mantles of the same cloth, which is made from the bark of a tree, [37] and has some resemblance to straw matting; these are nearly square, and have two holes in the upper part large enough to admit the arms; they reach as low as the knees, and are fastened round their bodies with a belt about four inches broad of the same cloth.
— from The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island by John Rodgers Jewitt
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