After consulting with witnesses, the police narrowed down the suspects to those who had facial hair.

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We toiled over the capstan, and late in the afternoon slipped out of the harbour.

… the undertaker’s wife opened a side door, and pushed Oliver down a steep flight of stairs into a stone cell, damp and dark: forming the ante-room to the coal-cellar, and denominated ‘kitchen’; wherein sat a slatternly girl, in shoes down at heel, and blue worsted stockings very much out of repair.