If you tell Brown and me (as you have) that the doctor is a dram-drinker, what is to hinder us from telling the story to others, with a few embellishments, perhaps ? And so the snowball (the sootball rather) would be set rolling.
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Sootball
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The painting is still conceived around a thick and sandy cloud that bursts like a fireball or sootball.
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In Lake Linajarv sediments also charcoal particles and sootballs were counted.
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Lashed to the chassis with wire, the tailpipe coughed gray sootballs that laid a low, semisweet cloud for half a mile behind.
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