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Silas Deane of Connecticut found Roger Sherman also of Connecticut “clever in private” but as unsuited by his countrified manner and talk to the august assembly as “a chestnut-burr for an eye-stone.”
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
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Silas Deane of Connecticut found Roger Sherman also of Connecticut “clever in private” but as unsuited by his countrified manner and talk to the august assembly as “a chestnut-burr for an eye-stone.”
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
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She then said she would try the eye-stone, and, going to the drawer, she got a small, smooth, and flat stone, and told Ella to go down into the kitchen and bring up a little vinegar in a saucer.
Oscar The Boy Who Had His Own Way Walter Aimwell 1840
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