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  • I'm terrible at crowd estimates but I can tell you they are cheek to jowl here in this sort of tavernous arena here.

    CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2007 2007

  • There was no tavernous village of Rangeley; that would have been too great a contrast, after the forest and the lakes, where loons are the only disturbers of silence, -- incongruity enough to overpower utterly the ringing of woodland music in our hearts.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

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