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So he wove in Train's Galloway legends, but he put the people into his own well-kenned dresses, and set them to act their parts under familiar skies.
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett
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One can endure the blackness that abides within four well-kenned walls; but night unrelieved by the least gleam of light, night without bounds or measurements, enfolding one like a stifling blanket and instilling into the brain the fear of nameless things, quickening the respiration and oppressing the heart -- that is another thing entirely, and that is what
The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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But he did not hear anybody enter the store: absorbed with his task, he thought himself quite alone until a well-kenned voice reached his ear.
The Fortune Hunter Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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But he listened attentively to the prayers, and tracked the minister over that well-kenned ground.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887
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Campbell of Minch, and others, all well-kenned gentlemen, had pleasure in his society.
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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