the branch of an antler, a chandelier, or a railway

The plains near the Straits of Magellan are inhabited by one species of Rhea (American ostrich), and northward the plains of La Plata by another species of the same genus; and not by a true ostrich or emeu, like those found in Africa and Australia under the same latitude.

The kept man—in and out of marriage—is quite a feature of life in our chaste little village.

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