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a12 live as man and

[B16; a12] live as man and wife without the benefit of a church wedding.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

are laughing at me and

Probably you are laughing at me and fitting those silly lines to my case— “‘Maybe sad Love upon his setting smiles, And with vain hopes his farewell hour beguiles.’
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

and looks at me and

More restless than he was, he crawls out of his house, and looks at me, and wanders to the door, and
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

a little and making an

Turning his head a little, and making an evident effort to shake off the unconsciousness that was weighing him down, he murmured: "What is it, my father?" "This, Evgenii."
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

and looked at me again

They said I looked at them but could not speak, and they moistened my lips, and said I was nearly gone; then I whispered, and they came and looked at me again, but would not disturb me.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Abel Lien Ada Minn a

[270] Levi Kittilsen died suddenly in 1907; the widow is living (at Stoughton); a daughter, Andrea, is married to Rev. Abel Lien, Ada, Minn.; a son, Carl, is in Nome, Alaska.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

and looked at Mr Audley

" A slipshod servant girl opened the door and looked at Mr. Audley rather suspiciously as she asked him, very much through her nose, what he pleased to want.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

a lie as much as

How came you to persist so obstinately in a falsehood?” Tom said, “He scorned a lie as much as any one: but he thought his honour engaged him to act as he did; for he had promised the poor fellow to conceal him: which,” he said, “he thought himself farther obliged to, as the gamekeeper had begged him not to go into the gentleman's manor, and had at last gone himself, in compliance with his persuasions.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

and looked at me and

Estella laughed, and looked at the shoe in her hand, and laughed again, and looked at me, and put the shoe down.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

and laboured at Marseilles and

He was afterwards prepared for missionary work by the British Society, and laboured at Marseilles and in Switzerland.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

approached light and music and

As they approached, light and music and laughter stole out of an open door next hers, and Isabel, distinguishing the voices of the theatrical party, divined that this was the sick-chamber, and that they were again cheering up the afflicted member of the troupe.
— from Their Wedding Journey by William Dean Howells

and like all men accustomed

His eye was at once turned towards the water; and, like all men accustomed to the sea, was intuitively directed sternward.
— from The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid

all literature and many a

Allusions to them are found in all literature and many a sentence is unintelligible to him who does not recognize the nursery rhyme alluded to.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10: The Guide by Charles Herbert Sylvester

at least as much attention

That being the case, it would seem that after this period of life at least as much attention should be directed to the kidneys as to the teeth, and that a semi-annual examination of the urine should be made.
— from The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; A Study in Hygiene by Anna M. (Anna Mary) Galbraith

are large and magnificent and

The halls are large and magnificent, and the apartments are conveniently distributed and handsome beyond belief.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 03 (of 10) Filarete and Simone to Mantegna by Giorgio Vasari

at least a mile and

We took the road to Hindon , but a worthy old man, of whom we asked particulars, pointed out a pathway, which cut off at least a mile and a half.
— from Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath by Henry Venn Lansdown

and Lyons and Marseilles and

Many other cities there are indeed, whereof I will still mention Milan, and Venice, built wholly upon water, and Lyons, and Marseilles, and Strasbourg, and Cologne, and Amsterdam.
— from Seldwyla Folks: Three Singular Tales by Gottfried Keller

at least as much against

What I do see [181] is that his a priori argument from “inconceivability” cuts both ways, and that it makes at least as much against germ-plasm as it does against gemmules.
— from An Examination of Weismannism by George John Romanes

as long as my arm

"He is to be indicted on a list of charges as long as my arm.
— from The Dreadnought of the Air by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

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