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Here are a few instances which might have been expressed otherwise with happier results: — The new political current failed to take, root in this district. The happy moment is not always seized to grasp the wheel of time by the forelock. Near the child lay an old man standing bv the edge of the grave. Upon the grave stood a cross rusted by the tootli of time. The hinges on which this affair turns are too transparent. The hall divided itself into two parties. Tt is a unique specimen, of which an example is to lie seen at the exhibition. So. he hurried away, the cowardly murderer, with Cain’s mark upon his brow, pursued by the. Eumenides and two police-constables.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 24 October 1928, Page 2
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122MIXED METAPHORS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 24 October 1928, Page 2
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