Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.
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“These are not men, but oxen!” and the multitude around repeated, “Oxen! Oxen!” The Devotees screamed out, “Lord! eat!” and the priests of Proserpine, conforming in terror to Carthage’s need, mumbled their Eleusinian formula: “Pour forth rain! conceive!” No sooner were the victims placed on the verge of the aperture than they vanished, like a drop of water on a red-hot plate, and whiffs of white smoke curled up through the scarlet glow.
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