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Example Sentences

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It turns almost to glaring whiteness all around-- to where it stops short at the foot of those scorched and smothered rocks on the left flank.

From With Botha in the Field by Ritchie, Eric Moore

His hand was stay'd--he knew not why; 'Twas a presence breathed around-- A pleading from the deep-blue sky, And up from the teeming ground.

From Wyandotte by Cooper, James Fenimore

His war-horse paws the shaking ground, The volleys ring--they close around-- And on the white brow, laurel-bound,   Falls many a soldier's tear.

From War Poetry of the South by Various

He'd just have to take more precautions the next time around-- Oh, gods, the inner hatch was ajar, and he hadn't left it that way!

From Ambush A Terran Empire vignette by Wilson, Ann