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When Tom Pickles’s father tried with a lusty puff to blow the small cork into the bottle, the sudden compression of the air inside, followed by its expansion, drove the cork in an unexpected direction, so that it flew out and struck him sharply on the mouth.
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Acorns are as strong as oaken posts when they propagate (prop-a-gate).
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The completed palindrome runs thus—
“Put it up but not on tub, put it up but not on tub, put it up,” which reads alike from either end.
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