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								So he wove in Train's Galloway legends, but he put the people into his own well-kenned dresses, and set them to act their parts under familiar skies. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett 
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								One can endure the blackness that abides within four well-kenned walls; but night unrelieved by the least gleam of light, night without bounds or measurements, enfolding one like a stifling blanket and instilling into the brain the fear of nameless things, quickening the respiration and oppressing the heart -- that is another thing entirely, and that is what The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906 
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								But he did not hear anybody enter the store: absorbed with his task, he thought himself quite alone until a well-kenned voice reached his ear. The Fortune Hunter Louis Joseph Vance 1906 
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								But he listened attentively to the prayers, and tracked the minister over that well-kenned ground. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887 
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								Campbell of Minch, and others, all well-kenned gentlemen, had pleasure in his society. Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872 
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