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Also consider that youth individuals are new to the iron game, so naturally they are not as strong.

They each had, it seemed, a bagful of sermons often preached with great authority, and brought souls low before the altar—like so many ears of corn lopped off by the hired laborer in his daily work […]

A meatless day or a beerless or tealess day does not suggest moderation so much as immoderation.