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  • Among them guinea pigs were the stand-bys -- their highly unemotional nature fits them for companionship with adoring but over-enthusiastic young masters and mistresses. —  An Autobiography
  • As soon as the last good-bys were said, and the steamer had cut loose from the wharf, the load of care, anxiety, and responsibility which I had carried for eighteen years began to lift itself from my shoulders at the rate, it seemed to me, of a pound a minute. —  Up From Slavery
  • And the drugs were distributed by black street gangs that had names like the Corleones. —  Seven Up
  • "Homer Ramos was carrying a gym bag when he walked past the hidden camera the night he met Ranger. —  Seven Up
  • No good-bys, they just walked off. —  Citizen Of The Galaxy
 

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