Word: cropleigh
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...chiefly concerned with the Crop-leighs, who move through the wilderness like giants and mostly come to ends both brobdingnagian and foul. The first Cropleighs are blown sky-high in a steamboat explosion; of their four sons, Beverly and Duncan are blown earth-deep in a tunnel explosion (fratricide and suicide), Dickie loses a leg in the same disaster, and garrulous Jack is killed by a bullet aimed at still another Cropleigh. Daughter Julia causes much of the trouble by giving birth to a baby whose father might be her brother Duncan, her lover Pete Legrand, or even possibly...
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