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and saying Kindly eat your
Two foot men were handing him dishes, bowing low and saying: “Kindly eat, your honor, and may it do you good!”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

a spruce keen eyed young
By three o’clock he comes back, towin’ a spruce, keen eyed young chap that he introduces as Dr. McWade. 258 He’s picked him up over at Bellevue, where he found him doin’ practice work in the psychopathic ward.
— from Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford

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