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I turned my face to the wet pillow and sailed a saltry river into the caverns of grief remembered, into the subterranean depths of sleep.
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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"Oh, what an interminable day this has seemed!" sighed Lady Cameron to her companion, as, soft on the saltry stillness of the air, there came to them the sound of a distant church clock striking the hour of six.
His Heart's Queen Mrs. Georgie Sheldon 1884
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