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aye be looking at the empty sea
And on the shore was a maiden looking away and away to sea, and the nets all unheeded at her feet, and the seagulls not heeding her at all, and the great sorrow was in her eyes, in the very poise of her; and I wondered where was the lithe lad she should be having to love her, for her eyes would aye be looking at the empty sea. . . .
— from The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars

arrive before luncheon and though Ethel said
The two girls went early, as the travellers had intended to arrive before luncheon, and, though Ethel said few words, but let Mary rattle on with a stream of conjectures and questions, her heart was full of longings for her sister, as well as of strange doubts and fears, as to the change that her new life might have made in her.
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

as betrothed lovers and the elder Seymour
The Archbishop of Canterbury joined their hands, and blessed them as betrothed lovers; and the elder Seymour, Earl Hertford, bowed and greeted them as a betrothed couple.
— from Henry VIII and His Court: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

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