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after the expected or usual time
- The sea-gulls oscillating their bodies, the hay-boat in the twilight, and the belated lighter?Book 8 — Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (70% in)
- ...crests and glistening, The stretch afar growing dimmer and dimmer, the gray walls of the granite storehouses by the docks, On the river the shadowy group, the big steam-tug closely flank'd on each side by the barges, the hay-boat, the belated lighter, On the neighboring shore the fires from the foundry chimneys burning high and glaringly into the night, Casting their flicker of black contrasted with wild red and yellow light over the tops of houses, and down into the clefts of...Book 8 — Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (37% in)
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