unearths some literary gems.
From Corey Ford's collected Rollo Boys:
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" !" went the baseball, as Tom's bat failed to connect with it, and the disconnected sphere sailed on toward Merriwell Hall.
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"!" exclaimed Dr. Merriwell, examining the weapon. "Someone has put a silencer on the starting-gun."
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The leader in the prow barked out a single word in Arabic: "&"
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She advanced slowly down the garden path, her eyes radiant with youth and love, her arms filled with a bunch of fragrant asterisks which she had plucked from the good, rich dirt where they grew in profusion, the tips of their star-shaped petals suffused with a passionate pink glow and exuding at times an almost overpowering odour.
[Elsewhere, as I recall, we also have a night sky with asterisks.]
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". . . ." she replied, and was gone. Phut!
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And his mother's name was Quetch, if that makes it any funnier.
[And, paraphrasing, as I lost the place: someone does card tricks with matches.]
