Next come the Flatting-mills.
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Francis W. Blagdon
The old expressman made a brisk remark or two about the tempest and the arctic weather, slammed his sliding doors to, and bolted them, closed his window down tight, and then went bustling around, here and there and yonder, setting things to rights, and all the time contentedly humming "Sweet By and By," in a low tone, and Flatting a good deal.
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Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Last Updated: February 18, 2009
His instinct for the exact word is not always assured, and now and again he has failed to exercise it; but we do not find in his prose the Flatting and sharping he censured in Fenimore Cooper's.
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Brander Matthews