The reason will I tell you; if this our love be known you would lose me for ever, never again might you look upon me, never again embrace me."
— from Guingamor, Lanval, Tyolet, Bisclaveret: Four lais rendered into English prose by Marie, de France, active 12th century
You come in here, a perfect stranger, you head a mutiny, you lay up my foreman with a dangerous wound, with absolutely no authority from anyone.
— from The Doctor : A Tale of the Rockies by Ralph Connor
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