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Besides, such is the breadth of the upper part of the front of his head, and such the tapering cut-water formation of the lower part, that by obliquely elevating his head, he thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish galliot into a sharppointed New
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For instance, we used to gather up a peck or so of large, sharppointed burrs and scatter them in the rabbit's furrow-like path.
Indian Boyhood 1902
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Besides, such is the breadth of the upper part of the front of his head, and such the tapering cut-water formation of the lower part, that by obliquely elevating his head, he thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish galliot into a sharppointed New York pilot-boat.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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