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with a local defect easily remediable
An invention (as often happens) does not visibly succeed on the first trial, and then the whole of the common public will at once declare the invention to be bad, when, in reality, it may be a good invention with a local defect, easily remediable.
— from Human Intercourse by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

was a little donkey engine rightly
The only motive power was a little donkey engine, (rightly named,) which puffed and wheezed as if it had the asthma.
— from The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

with a last desperate effort Ramrod
Suddenly the animal stopped, gave a scream that made the blood curdle in all our veins, and would have sunk out of sight only that, with a last desperate effort, Ramrod got up with it, and this time succeeded in throwing the halter over its head and drawing the noose tight.
— from The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by Various

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