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  • Our Father claims the Kwilu is navigable downstream from here all the way to where it joins the Congo River; upstream, one may go only as far as the high, scenic cataracts that thunder just to the south of us.†   (source)
  • Teacher Pan had cataracts and worried that soon he would not be able to paint anymore.†   (source)
  • Behind them, the Benare seemed a small thing tied to a sagging dock; the Hoolie ran southwest into the blue haze of distance below the town and curved west above it, narrowing toward the impassable Lower Cataracts a dozen kilometers uprivcr from Edge.†   (source)
  • On Wednesday night a particularly heavy rain came pounding through Jackson Park, and soon a series of two-hundred-foot cataracts began tumbling from the glass ceiling of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building onto the exhibits below.†   (source)
  • My mother is the surviving half of a blindfold trapeze act, not a fact I think about much even now that she is sightless, the result of encroaching and stubborn cataracts.†   (source)
  • His eyes were opaque and white, clouded with cataracts.†   (source)
  • I don't like cataracts," I decided.†   (source)
  • You can darken white hair, you can smooth wrinkles and remove cataracts, and if you are willing to go to extraordinary lengths, you can give a sixty-year-old man the body he had at nineteen.†   (source)
  • I recall one story my mother told us about a traveler who was approached by an old woman with terrible cataracts on her eyes.†   (source)
  • His eyes were hazy and nearly vacant, the eyes of an old man stricken with cataracts.†   (source)
  • Cataracts were slowly obscuring Stefan's eyes; the disease had cost him half a finger and his last job.†   (source)
  • Although she was already a hundred years old and on the point of going blind from cataracts, she still had her physical dynamism, her integrity of character, and her mental balance intact.†   (source)
  • Up close Puller noted the heavy cataracts.†   (source)
  • In every home, at least one family member suffered from goiters or cataracts.†   (source)
  • For myself I pick a novel and for Bruno with his cataracts a b0" ataractook on tape.†   (source)
  • There it casts its arms about the steep shores of the isle, and falls then with a great noise and smoke over the cataracts of Rauros down into the Nindalf, the Wetwang as it is called in your tongue.†   (source)
  • Ever since Obasan's operation for cataracts, she's lived in a darkened house.†   (source)
  • When Father removed their cataracts, they walked home on their own.†   (source)
  • The cortisone they took led to cataracts, diabetes, hip fractures, and other side effects.†   (source)
  • As though she'd contracted an advanced case of cataracts.†   (source)
  • Instead, a seemingly natural arrangement of open grasslands, winding paths, clumps and groves of trees, in combination with an abundant presence of water in the form of serpentine lakes, streams, and artificial cataracts, was intended to evoke the look of an idealized English landscape.†   (source)
  • Her eyes were clouded with milky cataracts, and her sides rose and fell with her labored breathing.†   (source)
  • His eyes, going gray with cataracts, seemed to see through me.†   (source)
  • Well they won't be getting any thousand dollars from the Woodworths, we told them--I've got cataracts, don't you know, and I don't need to tell you how expensive that is.†   (source)
  • And Teacher Pan wandered the courtyards, his eyes misty with cataracts.†   (source)
  • He had ratty gray hair, a wrinkled face, and eyes that were milky with cataracts.†   (source)
  • He turned toward me, his eyes unfocused and milky with cataracts.†   (source)
  • He must've been at least fifteen feet tall, but the most startling thing was his enormous milky eye, scarred and webbed with cataracts.†   (source)
  • "You're like someone who has cataracts and wants to see, but you refuse to have an operation because you're afraid you'll go blind.†   (source)
  • Any minute, Thor was going to get flushed downstream, where rows of jagged rocks shredded the current in a series of cataracts, perfect for making a Thor smoothie.†   (source)
  • …trees; not merely a dance for fun and beauty (though it was that too) but a magic dance of plenty, and where their hands touched, and where their feet fell, the feast came into existence sides of roasted meat that filled the grove with delicious smell, and wheaten cakes and oaten cakes, honey and many-coloured sugars and cream as thick as porridge and as smooth as still water, peaches, nectarines, pomegranates, pears, grapes, strawberries, raspberries pyramids and cataracts of fruit.†   (source)
  • "Yes," I said, and described for him the terrible fevers and chills of malaria, and the children who suffered from worms, and how thorn wounds could become infected, and all the old people who were blind until their cataracts were removed.†   (source)
  • She concentrated on a silent schooling in the distances of things and peoples voices, so that she would still be able to see with her memory what the shadows of her cataracts no longer allowed her to.†   (source)
  • She might have once been beautiful, but her pearlescent skin was withered, her seaweed-green eyes were milky with cataracts, and her rippling blond hair was shot through with gray like blight in a wheat field.†   (source)
  • I summoned cataracts and hurricanoes, and as if by conjury the call was immediately answered.†   (source)
  • Madame Deroulard had suffered from cataracts in both eyes for many years.†   (source)
  • Some survivors — even children — were developing what were called A-bomb cataracts.†   (source)
  • I knew Madame Deroulard had cataracts-the atropine drops told me that.†   (source)
  • And it was in the midst of shouts rolling against the terrace wall in massive waves that waxed in volume and duration, while cataracts of colored fire fell thicker through the darkness, that Dr. Rieux resolved to compile this chronicle, so that he should not be one of those who hold their peace but should bear witness in favor of those plague-stricken people; so that some memorial of the injustice and outrage done them might endure; and to state quite simply what we learn in time of…†   (source)
  • The boat was leaning, the water was sliced sharply and fell away in green cascades, in bubbles, in cataracts.†   (source)
  • Red trails are seen like cataracts of rust streaming under the dark-green foliage of bushes and creepers clothing the low cliffs.†   (source)
  • Italian in the mouth of Italians is a deep-voiced stream, with unexpected cataracts and boulders to preserve it from monotony.†   (source)
  • At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.†   (source)
  • Switzerland was an island, washed on one side by the waves of thunder around Gorizia and on another by the cataracts along the Somme and the Aisne.†   (source)
  • From her feet the ground sloped sharply into view, and violets ran down in rivulets and streams and cataracts, irrigating the hillside with blue, eddying round the tree stems collecting into pools in the hollows, covering the grass with spots of azure foam.†   (source)
  • "Trust to us, friend Cap," answered Pathfinder; "we are but fresh-water sailors, it is true, and I cannot boast of being much even of that; but we understand rifts and rapids and cataracts; and in going down these we shall do our endeavors not to disgrace our edication."†   (source)
  • …tributaries and transoceanic currents, gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions, torrents, eddies, freshets, spates, groundswells, watersheds, waterpartings, geysers, cataracts, whirlpools, maelstroms, inundations, deluges, cloudbursts: its vast circumterrestrial ahorizontal curve: its secrecy in springs and latent humidity, revealed by rhabdomantic or hygrometric instruments and exemplified by the well by the…†   (source)
  • …phantoms with instruments alert, Blending with Nature's rhythmus all the tongues of nations; You chords left as by vast composers—you choruses, You formless, free, religious dances—you from the Orient, You undertone of rivers, roar of pouring cataracts, You sounds from distant guns with galloping cavalry, Echoes of camps with all the different bugle-calls, Trooping tumultuous, filling the midnight late, bending me powerless, Entering my lonesome slumber-chamber, why have you seiz'd me?†   (source)
  • …lengthens, Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is provided for in the west, Banding the bulge of the earth winds the hot equator, Curiously north and south turn the axis-ends, Within me is the longest day, the sun wheels in slanting rings, it does not set for months, Stretch'd in due time within me the midnight sun just rises above the horizon and sinks again, Within me zones, seas, cataracts, forests, volcanoes, groups, Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands.†   (source)
  • And thou, highest perfection of excellence that can be desired, utmost limit of grace in human shape, sole relief of this afflicted heart that adores thee, though the malign enchanter that persecutes me has brought clouds and cataracts on my eyes, and to them, and them only, transformed thy unparagoned beauty and changed thy features into those of a poor peasant girl, if so be he has not at the same time changed mine into those of some monster to render them loathsome in thy sight,…†   (source)
  • No sooner he, with them of man and beast Select for life, shall in the ark be lodged, And sheltered round; but all the cataracts Of Heaven set open on the Earth shall pour Rain, day and night; all fountains of the deep, Broke up, shall heave the ocean to usurp Beyond all bounds; till inundation rise Above the highest hills: Then shall this mount Of Paradise by might of waves be moved Out of his place, pushed by the horned flood, With all his verdure spoiled, and trees adrift, Down the…†   (source)
  • …into fair; for it is not two days since thou sawest with thine own eyes the beauty and elegance of the peerless Dulcinea in all its perfection and natural harmony, while I saw her in the repulsive and mean form of a coarse country wench, with cataracts in her eyes and a foul smell in her mouth; and when the perverse enchanter ventured to effect so wicked a transformation, it is no wonder if he effected that of Samson Carrasco and thy gossip in order to snatch the glory of victory out…†   (source)
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  • Her words were falling on my head like a great cataract.†   (source)
  • A cataract operation!†   (source)
  • She missed sitting with Mullah Faizullah outside the kolba, watching the fireworks explode over Herat in the distance, the sudden bursts of color reflected in her tutor's soft, cataract-riddled eyes.†   (source)
  • A dozen pigeons roosting on the cathedral spire cataract down its length and wheel out over the sea.†   (source)
  • When I lowered my arms to look again, Martin's head had turned in my direction, one cataract eye wheeling crazily before fixing, it seemed, on me.†   (source)
  • I'm no longer cold or aching, or hunched over or deformed, or almost blind with cataract eyes.†   (source)
  • Montag moved back to his own house, left the window wide, checked Mildred, tucked the covers about her carefully, and then lay down with the moonlight on his cheekbones and on the frowning ridges in his brow, with the moonlight distilled in each eye to form a silver cataract there.†   (source)
  • When he raised his head, I saw from his grizzled face and cataract-clouded eyes that he was very old.†   (source)
  • Now we approach the First Cataract.†   (source)
  • Binks said this with one of those I'm almost dead, I can say this kind of stuff grins and cataract-clouded eyes.†   (source)
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  • The windshield was milky around the edges, as if a cataract was beginning to form.†   (source)
  • The cataract was about a hundred feet tall, and streamed down a stone face with an overhang that made it impossible to climb.†   (source)
  • With eye disease rampant in northern Pakistan, Mortenson arranged for Dr. Geoff Tabin, an American cataract surgeon, to offer free surgery to sixty elderly patients in Skardu and Gilgit.†   (source)
  • And then she forgot everything else, because Aslan himself was coming, leaping down from cliff to cliff like a living cataract of power and beauty.†   (source)
  • Beside me, the student's eyes swam with a distorting cataract of tears, his features rigid as though he struggled within himself.†   (source)
  • It was like getting the use of an eye back, having a cataract removed.†   (source)
  • Prof came out and, while did not look his most debonair, was neat and clean, hair combed, dimples back and happy sparkle in eye—fake cataract gone.†   (source)
  • Old Grandma stood up straight when she said this and stared at Auntie with milky cataract eyes.†   (source)
  • Exhausted, I hear Leslie's cataract of words as if through muffled layers of wool, trying without much success to piece it all together—this scrambled confessional with its hodgepodge of terms like Reichian and Jungian, Adlerian, a Disciple of Karen Homey, sublimation, gestalt, fixations, toilet training, and other things I have been aware of but never heard a human being speak of in such tones, which down South are reserved for Thomas Jefferson, Uncle Remus and the blessed Trinity.†   (source)
  • He was short and big in the shoulders; his hair was pure white, and the pupils of his eyes bore the smoky beginnings of cataract invasion.†   (source)
  • Then I heard the cataract of talk, which I knew he engendered; that was what Sunday at Mingo began with.†   (source)
  • He shook his head again, slowly this time, and tears leaked from his cataract-laden eyes.†   (source)
  • "They'll take her if we do a cataract operation on her right eye.†   (source)
  • "The First Cataract," Bloodstained Blade announced.†   (source)
  • The two floods combined in a steaming, boiling cataract and flowed on as one toward the black fog.†   (source)
  • Divine days fall like water from a cataract, and I had not learned yet the mortal trick of counting them.†   (source)
  • The First Cataract?†   (source)
  • "O-o-oh," said Shasta and plunged in — it was about up to his knees — and stooped his head right into the cataract.†   (source)
  • We jumped a cataract and went airborne.†   (source)
  • Before them a little cataract of water poured into a broad pool: and both the Horses were already in the pool with their heads down, drinking, drinking, drinking.†   (source)
  • He looked like poor grade of salvage—dirty clothes, filthy himself, hair unkempt, paralyzed down one side and hand twisted, one eye a film of cataract—perfect picture of old wrecks who sleep in Bottom Alley and cadge drinks and pickled eggs in cheap taprooms.†   (source)
  • A cataract of water poured over the deck; the poop and forecastle were like two islands with a fierce sea between them. aloft the sailors were lying out along the yard desperate trying to get control of the sail.†   (source)
  • She was still in what appeared to be a raw condition of shock over Nathan's desertion of her (she said, not without a touch of grisly humor, that she had contemplated several times hurling herself from the window of the ratty Upper West Side hotel where she had languished those three days), but if grief over his parting had obviously eroded her spirit, it was this same grief, I sensed, that allowed her to open even wider the gates of her memory in a mighty cathartic cataract.†   (source)
  • And when I can swim no longer, if I have not reached Aslan's country, or shot over the edge of the world in some vast cataract, I shall sink with my nose to the sunrise and Peepiceek will be head of the talking mice in Narnia.†   (source)
  • Now like a callosity, a cataract of the eye over what was once transparent and bright-for the park racing with deer was an idea strangely transparent to Virgiewas the line of store fronts and the MacLain Bijou, and the cemetery that was visible on the cedar hill.†   (source)
  • Before his discharge, an ophthalmologist found that he had the beginnings of an A-bomb cataract.†   (source)
  • At every stop a cataract of men and women is disgorged, each in haste to put a safe distance between himself or herself and the rest.†   (source)
  • It seems to him that the past week has rushed like a torrent and that the week to come, which will begin tomorrow, is the abyss, and that now on the brink of cataract the stream has raised a single blended and sonorous and austere cry, not for justification but as a dying salute before its own plunge, and not to any god but to the doomed man in the barred cell within hearing of them and of the two other churches, and in whose crucifixion they too will raise a cross.†   (source)
  • His mind screamed down opposition, and he sprang to the cellar door and pulled it openDarkness like a cataract, inexhaustible, monstrous.†   (source)
  • His right eye was overgrown by a cataract, and he kept his head tilted as if he were trying to see around it.†   (source)
  • We had reached the turn in our walk, the stone bridge at the foot of the last and smallest lake, under which the swollen waters fell in a cataract to the stream below; beyond, the path doubled back towards the house.†   (source)
  • "Now just suppose," he said, "we were on our way up the Nile to the first cataract, sailing in a dahabiyeh.†   (source)
  • The great affection she had shown him when he was a young child was based not on any deep kinship of mind or body or spirit, but on her vast maternal feeling, something that poured from her in a cataract of tenderness and cruelty upon young, weak, plastic life.†   (source)
  • Kill him and swell the tide of pent-up lava that will some day break loose, not in a single, blundering, accidental, individual crime, but in a wild cataract of emotion that will brook no control.†   (source)
  • Are we, then, speeding forward to some cataract which will cast us down an abyss?†   (source)
  • Surely it is not possible for a bark canoe to go over that mighty cataract?†   (source)
  • Were Niagara but a cataract of sand, would you travel your thousand miles to see it?†   (source)
  • "He operated on me for a cataract," he said.†   (source)
  • He was suffering from the strange pains of a conscience abruptly operated on for the cataract.†   (source)
  • …'real thing,' was out of breath in a moment, and so was overtaken and vanquished by her device of a feigned but continuous hilarity—she would utter a shrill cry, shut tight her little bird-like eyes, which were beginning to be clouded over by a cataract, and quickly, as though she had only just time to avoid some indecent sight or to parry a mortal blow, burying her face in her hands, which completely engulfed it, and prevented her from seeing anything at all, she would appear to be…†   (source)
  • From the vestibule she waved to them, but she clung a second to the sleeve of the brakeman who helped her down before she had the courage to dive into the cataract of hand-shaking people, people whom she could not tell apart.†   (source)
  • Reckon we're in Cataract Canyon.†   (source)
  • Then he would go for a swim, and a lifeguard would blow on his little horn to warn those brash enough to venture beyond the first breaking wave, or merely to get too close to its onrushing storm—and even the final thrust of the cataract was like the slap of a giant paw against the back of his neck.†   (source)
  • What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads that lead to ferny brooks where I can bathe my fingers in a cataract of rippling notes, or to clamber over a stone wall into green fields that tumble and roll and climb in riotous gladness!†   (source)
  • Above the fifth cataract, above the meeting of rivers in Sennar, up the Bahr el Abiad, into the far unknown of Africa, I went.†   (source)
  • But joy soon effaced every other feeling; and loud as the wind blew, near and deep as the thunder crashed, fierce and frequent as the lightning gleamed, cataract-like as the rain fell during a storm of two hours' duration, I experienced no fear and little awe.†   (source)
  • Uncas did as the other had directed, and when the voice of Hawkeye ceased, the roar of the cataract sounded like the rumbling of distant thunder.†   (source)
  • The fall of a tree overthrown by age, the rushing torrent of a cataract, the lowing of the buffalo, and the howling of the wind were the only sounds which broke the silence of nature.†   (source)
  • Like his fabled Arthur Gordon Pym, I expected any moment to see that "shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men," thrown across the cataract that protects the outskirts of the pole!†   (source)
  • Surely it is not possible to feel otherwise, any more than it would be possible for a man with cataract to regret the painful process by which his dim blurred sight of men as trees walking had been exchanged for clear outline and effulgent day.†   (source)
  • The scenery of external nature, which others regard only with admiration, he loved with ardour:— ——The sounding cataract Haunted him like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to him An appetite; a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrow'd from the eye.†   (source)
  • As I imagined, the ship proves to be in a current; if that appellation can properly be given to a tide which, howling and shrieking by the white ice, thunders on to the southward with a velocity like the headlong dashing of a cataract.†   (source)
  • His feudal tower must arise in due majesty; the figures which he introduces must have the costume and character of their age; the piece must represent the peculiar features of the scene which he has chosen for his subject, with all its appropriate elevation of rock, or precipitate descent of cataract.†   (source)
  • …We will not trace him in his brief wanderings, under the influence of that spirit of emigration that some times induces a dapper Cockney to quit his home, and lands him, before the sound of Bow-bells is out of his ears, within the roar of the cataract of Niagara; but shall only add that at a very early day, even before Elizabeth had been sent to school, he had found his way into the family of Marmaduke Temple, where, owing to a combination of qualities that will be developed in the…†   (source)
  • Presently a fair slip of a girl, about ten years old, with a cataract of golden hair streaming down over her shoulders, came along.†   (source)
  • Other dispersed fragments of the same great palladium are to be found on the canals of Venice, at the second cataract of the Nile, in the baths of Germany, and sprinkled on the sea-sand all over the English coast.†   (source)
  • A great cataract of flounces rolled down from the young lady's waist to Newman's feet; he had to step aside to avoid treading upon them.†   (source)
  • There is the Trophonius' cave in which, by some artifice, the leaden Tritons are made not only to spout water, but to play the most dreadful groans out of their lead conchs—there is the nymphbath and the Niagara cataract, which the people of the neighbourhood admire beyond expression, when they come to the yearly fair at the opening of the Chamber, or to the fetes with which the happy little nation still celebrates the birthdays and marriage-days of its princely governors.†   (source)
  • I am the fugitive, all houseless roaming, The monster without air or rest, That like a cataract, down rocks and gorges foaming, Leaps, maddened, into the abyss's breast!†   (source)
  • The Sarpent and I were out scouting about the garrison there, when he told me that the traditions of his people gave an account of a mighty cataract in this neighborhood, and he asked me to vary from the line of march a little to look at the wonder.†   (source)
  • Floating on the waves we saw the abandoned boat, as for one instant it tossed and gaped beneath the ship's bows like a chip at the base of a cataract; and then the vast hull rolled over it, and it was seen no more till it came up weltering astern.†   (source)
  • They had selected this point to make their descent, having borne the canoe through the wood around the cataract for that purpose.†   (source)
  • But now the rain forms a rushing cataract in front of that horizon toward which we are running with such maddening speed.†   (source)
  • Ne-ne-hofra dwelt in a house close by Essouan, yet closer to the first cataract—so close, indeed, that the sound of the eternal battle waged there between river and rocks was of the place a part.†   (source)
  • For a few moments his efforts were so frantic that he actually prevailed over the power of the cataract; but natur' has its limits, and one faltering stroke of the paddle set him back, and then he lost ground, foot by foot, inch by inch, until he got near the spot where the river looked even and green, and as if it were made of millions of threads of water, all bent over some huge rock, when he shot backwards like an arrow and disappeared, the bow of the canoe tipping just enough to…†   (source)
  • But if this noise arises from a fall, a cataract, if all this ocean flows away headlong into a lower basin yet, if that deafening roar is produced by a mass of falling water, the current must needs accelerate, and its increasing speed will give me the measure of the peril that threatens us.†   (source)
  • He approached the further end of the cavern, to an outlet, which, like the others, was concealed by blankets; and removing the thick screen, breathed the fresh and reviving air from the cataract.†   (source)
  • Sometimes a rivulet suddenly bursts through a vault that has been begun, and inundates the laborers; or a layer of marl is laid bare, and rolls down with the fury of a cataract, breaking the stoutest supporting beams like glass.†   (source)
  • "There is melody in the fall of the cataract, and the rushing of many waters is sweet to the senses!" said David, pressing his hand confusedly on his brow.†   (source)
  • The water fell out of this wide basin, in a cataract so regular and gentle, that it appeared rather to be the work of human hands than fashioned by nature.†   (source)
  • On issuing from their place of confinement, the whole party instantly experienced a grateful renovation of spirits, by exchanging the pent air of the hiding-place for the cool and invigorating atmosphere which played around the whirlpools and pitches of the cataract.†   (source)
  • Just as Alice veiled her eyes in horror, under the impression that they were about to be swept within the vortex at the foot of the cataract, the canoe floated, stationary, at the side of a flat rock, that lay on a level with the water.†   (source)
  • The description of this picturesque and remarkable little cataract, as given by the scout, is sufficiently correct, though the application of the water to uses of civilized life has materially injured its beauties.†   (source)
  • His lurking Indians were suddenly converted into four-footed beasts; his lake into a beaver pond; his cataract into a dam, constructed by those industrious and ingenious quadrupeds; and a suspected enemy into his tried friend, David Gamut, the master of psalmody.†   (source)
  • "You are at the foot of Glenn's," returned the other, speaking aloud, without fear of consequences within the roar of the cataract; "and the next thing is to make a steady landing, lest the canoe upset, and you should go down again the hard road we have traveled faster than you came up; 'tis a hard rift to stem, when the river is a little swelled; and five is an unnatural number to keep dry, in a hurry-skurry, with a little birchen bark and gum.†   (source)
  • He described the cataract of Glenn's; the impregnable position of its rocky island, with its caverns and its numerous rapids and whirlpools; he named the name of "La Longue Carabine," and paused until the forest beneath them had sent up the last echo of a loud and long yell, with which the hated appellation was received.†   (source)
  • …on unknown currents, Where shells grow to her slimy deck, where the dead are corrupting below; Where the dense-starr'd flag is borne at the head of the regiments, Approaching Manhattan up by the long-stretching island, Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance, Upon a door-step, upon the horse-block of hard wood outside, Upon the race-course, or enjoying picnics or jigs or a good game of base-ball, At he-festivals, with blackguard gibes, ironical license,…†   (source)
  • My fall was stopped by a terrible squash, that sounded louder to my ears than the cataract of Niagara; after which, I was quite in the dark for another minute, and then my box began to rise so high, that I could see light from the tops of the windows.†   (source)
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