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As to the rest, I had owned and operated the most extensive and thoroughly appointed soapworks in all the country.
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales Ambrose Bierce 1878
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On the quay, amid the streams which trickled from the soapworks, thick, green, streaked with black, full of oil and soda, there was a whole population of customs officers, shipping agents, and stevedores with trollies drawn by little Corsican ponies.
Tartarin De Tarascon Alphonse Daudet 1868
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