To cook pasta, you first need to put the kettle on.

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People who spent the night on park benches covered by newspapers said they were sleeping under “Hoover blankets.”

And just at the same time the tide caught the brig, and threw the wind out of her sails. She came round into the wind like a top, and the next moment struck the reef with such a dunch as threw us all flat upon the deck, and came near to shake Mr. Riach from his place upon the mast.