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Though apparently engrossed in watching syl-lynn spin their multiple legs across the surface of the river, relying on surface tension to keep them from sinking,
Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005
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Though apparently engrossed in watching syl-lynn spin their multiple legs across the surface of the river, relying on surface tension to keep them from sinking,
Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005
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She leaned against the trellis and gazed far across the silver-shot lake at the sun sinking,
Little Lost Sister Virginia Brooks
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But a day or two more, for see the frame all wasted and sinking,
The Wound-Dresser 1909
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That the cherubim may cry -- when they see me sinking,
The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902
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But a day or two morefor see, the frame all wasted already, and sinking,
Dresser, The 1900
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I saw the opinion of the aforesaid men and the danger which my ship was in, both from the fire on the enemy and from the risk of sinking,
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Some heads be swimming, [425] but mine will be sinking,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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As I laye a-thynkynge, the golden sun was sinking,
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864
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But a day or two more, for see the frame all wasted and sinking,
Drum Taps Walt Whitman 1855
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