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The Way to the Sea choose

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[UK] C. Crampton Way to the Sea 269: Modernity [...] has done for the graceful glory of the old ways.
at do for, v.
[UK] C. Crampton Way to the Sea 219: [M]any slept under deck blankets from discontinued cruise liners, and some even dossed down in a worn-out lorry.
at doss, v.
[UK] C. Crampton Way to the Sea 75: Standing on London Bridge in what my mother would call ‘a bit of a dwaal’ (an Afrikaans word meaning a dreamy, befuddled moment when your mind temporarily vanishes elsewhere).
at dwaal, n.
[UK] C. Crampton Way to the Sea 266: ‘Yeah, I’m by the water, usual place [...] It’s effing windy’.
at effing, adj.
[UK] C. Crampton Way to the Sea 215: [O]ne day, when killing time in central London waiting to meet a friend [etc].
at kill, v.
[UK] C. Crampton Way to the Sea 159: [The real-life story] seems to be straight out of a penny dreadful.
at penny dreadful (n.) under penny, n.
[UK] C. Crampton Way to the Sea 120: A four-storey house plonked alongside them would still come up shorter than their peaks.
at plonk, v.
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