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not apparently know every detail
Certain it is, that in the villages where he dwelt there seems to be no man, no child, who does not apparently know every detail of the life he lived there, nearly a hundred years ago.
— from Glimpses of Three Coasts by Helen Hunt Jackson

negroes are killed every day
A letter from the Rev. G. W. Powell declares, "There are thousands of troops searching in every direction, and many negroes are killed every day: the exact number will never be ascertained."
— from Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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