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"I never heard of such a scheme," said Morton, "and therefore I could not thwart it.—But does your religion permit you to take such uncreditable and immoral modes of recruiting?"

From Old Mortality, Volume 2. by Scott, Walter, Sir

Merritt paused the next morning in front of Tubby's home, and gave the "call" of the Eagle Patrol with a not uncreditable resemblance to the scream of a real eagle.

From The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol by Goldfrap, John Henry