strains

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without prelude or crescendo he	strains	his body towards his mother
their feet imperceptibly to the	strains	of a slow waltz that
but the spread of weaker	strains	of the virus and the
forbye the stresses an the	strains	o livin oot in davy
ower the fish as the	strains	o the sang waucht roon