A set of filibusters or pirates may wear looks and brows as black as the sticking-plasters boots that their representatives are dressed in at the minor theaters; but a soldier or a sailor should be, and as a rule is, the most cheerful of fellows, doing his duty in the trench or the storm, dying when the bullet comes, but living like a hero the while.
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Brave Men and Women
A refrigerator stood against the wall, as tall as me and four times as wide.
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Mao's last dancer
It had come empty only a year before Hari Seldon was granted the right to form his Foundation, but it seemed as though it had been built for this very purpose.
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Flux Tales of Human Futures
Finding him apparently dying, I sent at once for Doctor â” â”, meanwhile trying, with the help of the nurse, every means to bring back warmth to his body, administering stimulants, rubbing the extremities with mustard, and applying mustard-plasters.
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Memories
"Well, I think plasters, and liniment, and rubbing, as bad as flat-irons any day.
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Jack And Jill