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  • There are rushful, pushful people from "the States," stiff-tongued Germans, ginger-headed Icelanders, Galicians, Norwegians, Poles, and Frenchmen, all of whom are rapidly becoming irreproachably Canadian.

    Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

  • In these rushful days an apology is advisable, if not absolutely essential, from any man, save the one or two elect, who has the temerity to publish a volume of verse.

    Bees in Amber A Little Book of Thoughtful Verse John Oxenham 1896

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