unearths some literary gems.
From Robinson Crusoe's Return, by Barry Pain:
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We got into a carriage...which he told me was in the vulgar parlance called a four-wheeler; and when I asked him what the reason for that might be, he answered that it was because the Emperor of Timbuctoo's aunt rode once in one.
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For sheer intelligence I doubt if there is anything which can compete with a good tide.
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