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1  The current ran smooth and swift, but a dumb immobility sat on the banks.
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2  The twigs overhung the current thickly, and from distance to distance a large limb of some tree projected rigidly over the stream.
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3  The current snatched him as though he had been a wisp of grass, and I saw the body roll over twice before I lost sight of it for ever.
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4  The tidal current runs to and fro in its unceasing service, crowded with memories of men and ships it had borne to the rest of home or to the battles of the sea.
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5  There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic current of phrases, unless a kind of note at the foot of the last page, scrawled evidently much later, in an unsteady hand, may be regarded as the exposition of a method.
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6  The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress; and Kurtz's life was running swiftly too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time.
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7  The current was more rapid now, the steamer seemed at her last gasp, the stern-wheel flopped languidly, and I caught myself listening on tiptoe for the next beat of the boat, for in sober truth I expected the wretched thing to give up every moment.
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