one-mile-long

Updated: September 30, 2025

But, I tell you, New York is comfortable comfortable. There's something about it the sights and the crowds, and the way it changes every day, and the very air of it that seems to tie a one-mile-long stake rope around a man's neck, with the other end fastened somewhere about Thirty-fourth Street. I don't know what it is." "God knows," said Greenbrier sadly, "and I know. The East has gobbled you up.

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