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They had to him no connection with anything outside normal peaceful life, stirred his thoughts to war no more than seeing a gasbracket would wake him to imaginings of a coalmine or a pit explosion.
Action Front Boyd Cable 1910
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All day, it is true, he was engaged in the work of education at a seminary for young ladies; but the evenings at least were his own, and these he would prolong far into the night, now dashing off 'A landscape with waterfall 'in oil, now a volunteer bust (' in marble ', as he would gently but proudly observe) of some public character, now stooping his chisel to a mere' nymph 'for a gasbracket on a stair, sir', or a life-size 'Infant Samuel' for a religious nursery.
The Wrong Box Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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