They swore as they parted with the skin of their finger-tips on the keen-edged razory shale.

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Nevertheless, even for a country bank, the unpredictable can loom large in the management of its reserve position.

[…] the greatest number are not content without the actual rayes of the Sunne, but bend, incline, and follow them; As large lists of solisequious and Sun-following plants.