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and brother ever called her Elizabeth
It was one of her idiosyncrasies to call people as soon as possible by their Christian names, though no one but her father and brother ever called her Elizabeth.
— from Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

and by everybody could help either
By and by everybody could help either to cut or carry hemlock and spruce boughs for the beds.
— from Betty Leicester: A Story For Girls by Sarah Orne Jewett

a big English country home except
She had never seen a big English country home except in pictures.
— from The Career of Katherine Bush by Elinor Glyn

And by evil chance his eye
And by evil chance his eye, and mine, fell upon a sword hanging on the farther wall.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

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