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their upper rooms built over the street
It also marks the site of two houses that stood close together with their upper rooms built over the street.
— from The Heart of Wessex by Sidney Heath

the usual roads but only the straight
And from this striking sentence he went on to another equally moving, showing, of course, that happiness could not be secured by traveling any of the usual roads, but only the straight and narrow path which the Master has marked out.
— from The Young Man and the World by Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) Beveridge

toward us riding buoyantly over the swelling
We can now plainly see the dauntless Captain paddling actively away toward us, riding buoyantly over the swelling waves, and making good progress in his gray suit of india-rubber.
— from The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton

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