The mustard-plasters (whether first or second in time) are only to stay on long enough to redden, not blister, the skin.

Less well known but perhaps even more interesting than Stephenson is Court Asher, the second gentleman from Indiana. Asher is a more convincing bigot than Stephenson, one more homegrown and more Hoosier than the puffed-up grand dragon, […]

When the fog lifted, the view of the glacier was a sight for sore eyes.

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