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bare

verb admit, air, announce, appear, be disclosed, be public, bring into view, bring out in evidence, bring to light, confess, declare, denude, disclose, display, divulgate, divulge, evince, evulgate, exhibit, expose, expose to view, lay bare, lay open, make apparent, make evident, make known, make manifest, make public, manifest, open, open up, publicize, represent, reveal, set forth evidence, show, surface, tell the truth, uncloak, unclothe, unconceal, uncover, uncurtain, undrape, unfold, unfurl, unmask, unscreen, unseal, unshield, unshroud, unveil, unwrap, vent, ventilate

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His eyes fell on the still, upright, and rigid form of the "Indian runner," who had borne to the camp the unwelcome tidings of the preceding evening.

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Doubtless, however, either of these stern and black-browed Puritans would have thought it quite a sufficient retribution for his sins that, after so long a lapse of years, the old trunk of the family tree, with so much venerable moss upon it, should have borne, as its topmost bough, an idler like myself.

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Thou saw'st the murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours he fell into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw; and his murderers still sailed on unharmed --while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to outstretched, longing arms.