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all come in I shall not

Till they all come in I shall not be missed; and when they do, will you have the goodness to say that I am gone?”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

a crossing if it should not

Col. Comstock, of my staff, was sent specially to ascertain what was necessary to make your position secure in the interval during which the enemy might use most of his force against you, and also, to ascertain what point on the river we should reach to effect a crossing if it should not be practicable to reach this side of the river at Bermuda Hundred.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

and cheer it is said not

Another society, the Turk Güji (Turkish Strength), encourages physical culture like the Slavonic Sokols , and there are Izdjis , or Turkish Boy-Scouts, under Enver Bey's patronage, who take "Turanian" scout-names, blazon the White Wolf of Turkish paganism on their flags, and cheer, it is said, not for the "Caliph" or the "Padishah," but for the "Khakan."
— from Turkey: a Past and a Future by Arnold Toynbee

and coarse in its sculpture nevertheless

The Pellegrini Chapel, next to the choir, has two fine trefoil-headed monuments in red marble with the background painted with subjects of about the same age (circa 1392); and in the Cavalli Chapel there is an admirably painted wall, against which has been put a monument which, though somewhat rude and coarse in its sculpture, nevertheless produces a very fine effect of colour and architecture combined.
— from Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of Tours in the North of Italy by George Edmund Street

actually continued it is surely not

If these miracles were actually continued, it is surely not difficult to discover the beneficial purpose which they would fulfil.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

and contained it is said nearly

the city had become repeopled, after many preceding years of flood, ravage, and famine, and contained, it is said, nearly three hundred thousand souls.
— from Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

and cut it into slices not

FRIED COD-FISH.—Take the middle or tail part of a fresh cod-fish, and cut it into slices not quite an inch thick, first removing the skin.
— from Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling... by Eliza Leslie

and cut it in slices near

STEWED ROCK-FISH.—Take a large rock-fish, and cut it in slices near an inch thick.
— from Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling... by Eliza Leslie

always changing itself into something new

Time is no stationary quantity, which is always changing itself into something new during its progressive flux.
— from Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken

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