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 1 XIX    |         besides.~As it would be a couple of days or more before the
 2 XXVIII |       that the whole pile rises a couple of feet above the water.
 3 XXXI   | serviceable suggestions, and in a couple of hours’ time he had made
 4 XXXII  |           that in the course of a couple of days we had caught as
 5 XXXIII |     planks a kind of wall about a couple of feet high, which protected
 6 XXXIV  |        seemed almost awful, For a couple of hours, in the vain hope
 7 XXXIV  |          of the storm which, in a couple of hours, will burst upon
 8 XXXVIII|        most distressing; but in a couple of hours the extreme agony
 9 XLIII  |        she keeps her course for a couple of hours, she will come
10 XLIII  |       right athwart our track.”~A couple of hours! The words sounded
11 XLIII  |        sounded to our ears like a couple of centuries. The ship might