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It was thinly dressed in fluttering paper covers, and was so thick and so lightly bound that it had a tendency to divide its material substance into parts, like the seventhlies and eighthlies of an old-fashioned sermon.
A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Sarah Orne Jewett 1879
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