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wealth of our family though enough remained
The beloved husband had died, and the great wealth of our family, though enough remained for comfortable maintenance, had been much diminished.
— from The Story of My Life — Volume 01 by Georg Ebers

whiff of oil from the engine room
A lingering odor of the food of yester-year seemed to cling about the saloon and to mingle with a whiff of oil from the engine room that had assailed them just before they entered.
— from Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

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