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  • They were evidently talking of me, for every now and then they looked at me, and some of the people who were sitting on the bench outside the door - which they call by a name meaning "word-bearer" - came and listened, and then looked at me, most of them pityingly.

    The Deadlocked City Elon, Amos 2001

  • They were evidently talking of me, for every now and then they looked at me, and some of the people who were sitting on the bench outside the door -- which they call by a name meaning "word-bearer" -- came and listened, and then looked at me, most of them pityingly.

    Dracula 1897

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