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a representative is left
The only difference discoverable between the two cases is, that each representative of the United States will be elected by five or six thousand citizens; whilst in the individual States, the election of a representative is left to about as many hundreds.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

A Room in LEONATO
A Room in LEONATO’S House.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

and rejoices in life
My boy is growing up and rejoices in life, in which like everybody else he will deceive or be deceived.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

A room in LUCENTIO
A room in LUCENTIO’S house.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Americans resident in local
Many times Americans resident in local areas concerned seemed never to have heard of the hush-hush operations in their own overseas homes, operations which were denounced with purple prose in Washington; we can say that covert operations, when they have been really uncovered, as in the case of the Time story about overzealous U.S. support of a German nationalist resistance group, turn out to be much more pale than the lurid columnists or inside stories from Washington would lead one to believe.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

A ROOM IN LOVEWIT
A ROOM IN LOVEWIT'S HOUSE.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Another room in LEONATO
Another room in LEONATO’S house.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

any rabbits I liked
I was talking to him yesterday, early in the day, at Madam O'Connor's; and he asked me was I your brother, Monica, to which I pleaded guilty, though," with a grin, "I'd have got out of it if I could; and then he began to talk about shooting, and said I might knock over any rabbits I liked in Coole.
— from Rossmoyne by Duchess

at Reavesbye in Lincolnshire
Bible, which belonged to "Raufe Townerawe," who on the 17th of June, 1585, was married to Anne Hartgrane, at Reavesbye, in Lincolnshire, and that at the end of this Bible are recorded the births, deaths and marriages of his children and other members of his family, from the date above mentioned to 1638.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 175, March 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

a reference in Lawson
A case nearer in point is a reference in Lawson to the Congarees of North Carolina.
— from Animal Carvings from Mounds of the Mississippi Valley Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 117-166 by Henry W. (Henry Wetherbee) Henshaw

account reopened in lampoons
To have the account reopened in lampoons and witticisms, contemptible but irritating, when it should be closed by the mere act of winning!
— from Hetty Wesley by Arthur Quiller-Couch

as reward Is like
{181} 15 'That punishment is shapen as reward Is like thy fortune: but our good estate We honour, while we sit to be adored:
— from The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Excluding the Eight Dramas by Robert Bridges

any rate I look
At any rate I look to you for nothing, and all I wish now is to get away from you and this place.’
— from A Son of Mars, volume 1 by Arthur Griffiths

a resais is laid
The charpoy, or Indian bedstead, is only a wooden frame with cross-bars of webbing, and on this a mat or a resais is laid.
— from Alive in the Jungle: A Story for the Young by Eleanor Stredder


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