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The descending liquor was ejected with desperate effort from the throat which it had fairly entered -- the flask flung from his hands -- and with choking and gurgling accents, startling eyes, and reddening visage, John Cross turned full upon his fellow-traveller, vainly trying to repeat, with the accompanying horror of expression which he felt, the single spellword, which had produced an effect so powerful.
Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky William Gilmore Simms 1838
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