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  • For we drank and talked and sung, till we talked and sung all together; and then we rose and danced on the deck a set of dances, which in one sense of the word at least, were very intelligibly and appropriately entitled reels.

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • "Certes," he says, "We were not of the Stoic school; for we drank, and talked, and sung altogether; and then we rose and danced on the deck a set of dances, which, in _one_ sense of the word at least, were very intelligibly and appropriately entitled reels.

    The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

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