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Examples
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Go up to Northwest Kansas to Zurich and Almena and you will find your Germans.
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"I've an AAA rated bond I'd like to sell you that is secured by a 1951 grain elevator in Almena, KS."
Jim Pivonka: Why We Must Move a Financial Rescue Package Forward 2008
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The thoughts might be uplifting to Almena, but they did not elevate my spirits.
The Rise of Roscoe Paine Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Well, they're telegraphing now that the pirate _Almena_ is coming in.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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Any salvage which the _Almena_ has earned will be paid to her owners and to the three men whom you deprived of command.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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_Almena_ was towed to sea, smoldering rebellion in one end of her, the power of the law in the other -- murder in the heart of every man on board.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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But by the time the matter was reported to the authorities ashore, the _Almena_, having caught the newly arrived southerly wind off the Peruvian coast, was hull down on the western horizon.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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Five months later the _Almena_ lay at an outer mooring-buoy in Callao
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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Six second mates on six American ships watched curiously, doubtingly, and at last anxiously, as sails were dropped and yards mastheaded on board the _Almena_, and as she paid off from the mooring-buoy before the land-breeze and showed them her stern, sent six dinghies, which gave up the pursuit in a few minutes and mustered around the buoy, where a wastefully slipped shot of anchor-chain gave additional evidence that all was not right.
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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The decanter went around, each filling his glass and holding it poised; then, when all were supplied, they drank to the grizzled old captain's toast: "A speedy and pleasant passage home for the _Almena_, and further confusion to her misguided crew."
"Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea Morgan Robertson 1888
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