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New York and Boston will have crept so near each other that they will be one huge, headachy city.

From Time Magazine Archive

The antagonists he wronged and overcame will have crept into his line and recaptured all they lost; have played the cuckoo in his blood and acquisitions, and turned out his diluted strain to perish.

From First and Last Things by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)