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1. Call Tom's bluff.
2. Hanako called his bluff.
3. We can't call their bluff.
4. She was tempted to call his bluff, hardly believing that he would carry out his threat.
5. As I stood upon the bluff before my cottage on that clear cold night in the early part of March, 1886, the noble Hudson flowing like the grey and silent spectre of a dead river below me, I felt again the strange, compelling influence of the mighty god of war, my beloved Mars, which for ten long and lonesome years I had implored with outstretched arms to carry me back to my lost love.
6. Sergeant Bluff,
7. Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, 51054 USA
8. 2445 Port Neal Industrial Road Sergeant Bluff, Iowa,
9. and thence due north to the parallel of 78o10′ north latitude; and bounded on the west by a line beginning at 61o00′ north latitude and 65o00′ west longitude and extending in a north-westerly direction along a rhumb line to the coast of Baffin Island at East Bluff (61o55′ north latitude and 66o20′ west longitude), and thence in a northerly direction along the coast of Baffin Island, Bylot Island, Devon Island and Ellesmere Island and following the meridian of 80o west longitude in the waters between those islands to 78o10′ north latitude; and bounded on the north by the parallel of 78o10′ north latitude.
10. and thence due north to the parallel of 78° 10′ N; and bounded on the west by a line beginning at 61° 00′ N 65° 00′ W and extending in a north-westerly direction along a rhumb line to the coast of Baffin Island at East Bluff (61° 55′ N 66° 20′ W); and thence in a northerly direction along the coast of Baffin Island, Bylot Island, Devon Island and Ellesmere Island and following the meridian of 80° W in the waters between those islands to 78° 10′ N; and bounded on the north by the parallel of 78° 10′ N.