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and if knight errants yet
No denser grows the mystery around my birth; and if knight errants yet live, rescuing maids, or he is a wandering god, and here is Arcadia, why should that make me grieve?
— from The Advocate: A Novel by Charles Heavysege

advancing in knowledge each year
But the children are advancing in knowledge each year.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 12, December, 1878 by Various

as I know ever yet
Nor has it, so far as I know, ever yet been tried in the case of any human being bitten by a deadly snake.
— from The Downfall of the Dervishes; or, The Avenging of Gordon by Ernest Nathaniel Bennett

All is known except your
All is known except your name.
— from Abbé Aubain and Mosaics by Prosper Mérimée

as I knew ee yesterday
"Did 'ee know me as I knew 'ee, yesterday when I came here and—and found 'ee here, Allan?"
— from The Garden of Memories by Henry St. John Cooper

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