Example Sentences

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She had been culling the blooms of that poetic land, and could not but offer me leaves from her garland.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume II by Fuller, Margaret

For several weeks I had been culling all the information I could about Italy, from tourists.

From A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 by Twain, Mark