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unpainted shanty with a rude doorstep
It was a little, long, low, unpainted shanty, with a rude doorstep, almost hid amid a jungle of vines and overarching trees at the end of a long lane, where Marshall Dean lived.
— from The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras by Frederick Vining Fisher

use such words as rector deacon
Also, he is careful not to use such words as rector , deacon and baccalaureate in merely rhetorical senses.
— from The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

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