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Intoned the Chicago Sun-Times: "A grateful and appreciative American public pardoned O. Henry many, many years ago."

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Intoned the forewoman: "We find the defendant guilty on the first count and guilty on the second."

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Intoned the presiding officer of the Chamber of Deputies: "I proclaim you, Juscelino Kubitschek, President of the Republic for a period of five years."

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Intoned the Daily Express: "The British Empire comes before the Ford empire."

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It seems as though the sounding of the bell Intoned the low song of the water-soul, And at some moments I can hardly tell The long-resounding echo from the toll.

From Georgian Poetry 1911-12 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir