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• At the time of the incidents I am about to relate, my office was in a respectable house in Twenty-fourth Street, New York City, and was shared, greatly to my own pleasure and convenience, by a clever young German whose acquaintance I had made in the hospital, and to whom I had become, in the one short year in which we had practised together, most unreasonably attached. —  The Old Stone House and Other Stories
• Sad to relate, they had been picked up two days afterwards at the mouth of the harbour, frozen to death. —  Hurricane Hurry
• Wonderful to relate, the sober sailor was there, waiting patiently, smoking his pipe with his arms folded, a picture of resignation. —  Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin
• Wonderful to relate, all the time not a man had been hit; and if we felt happy when we first got the frigate under way, we had reason to be doubly so when we found ourselves clear of the harbour and not a ship following us. —  The Loss of the Royal George
• Strange to relate, the Portuguese made no serious attempt to add Abyssinia to their dominions--possibly they did not think the task worth the trouble and expense; but they maintained some degree of power over the people through their religion, an influence whose effects were seen by Bruce and by other travellers of scarcely a hundred years ago--one not obliterated by tribal warfare and by a terrible, merciless coming of the Gallas from their country in the south In the year 1818 was born in Kaura, a child to whom the name Lij Kassi was given--a lad whose uncle was then governor of that part of Abyssinia. —  Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign

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