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The chest was deep, it is true, cavernously deep; but there were no full-swelling muscles, no wide-spreading shoulders, no clean-limbed straightness, no generous symmetry of outline.
CHAPTER III 2010
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The chest was deep, it is true, cavernously deep; but there were no full-swelling muscles, no wide-spreading shoulders, no clean-limbed straightness, no generous symmetry of outline.
Chapter III 1906
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The chest was deep, it is true, cavernously deep; but there were no full-swelling muscles, no wide-spreading shoulders, no clean-limbed straightness, no generous symmetry of outline.
Before Adam Jack London 1896
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One involuntarily looked again to be sure that such a feeble pipe came from that full-swelling chest.
The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891
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The in-door quiet and cushioned ease, where "all was one full-swelling bed"; the out-of-door stillness, broken only by "the stock-dove's plaint amid the forest deep,"
Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution William Hazlitt 1804
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