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Her father might have his country, -- he had not lost his love, his heart was not buried out in the depths of the cruel sea.
For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890
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But the despairing mind could not quit the world in peace, and even here in the cold, cruel sea, the quivering body clung to this fragment of life, and winced at death's touch, though more merciful.
A Simpleton Charles Reade 1849
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