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Examples
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“You see, she may die any minute — and it MAY be swaled away,” said the old doctor to Louisa.
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“He says the lump may be swaled away, and you may get quite well again,” she said.
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One end of the table held a tin candlestick, where a meagre tallow-candle swaled away in the socket, and the table was littered with fragments of food in little round pans.
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The bracken had, most of it, been cut in the autumn, and not a hundred yards away the furze was being swaled; the little blood-red flames and the blue smoke, the yellow blossoms of the gorse, the sunlight, and some flecks of drifting snow were mingled in an amazing tangle of colour.
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The great plumed hat they had put upon me flapped and swaled over my eyes so as almost to blind me.
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