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all the other modem users stand
You, me and all the other modem users stand to benefit enormously.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

a tone of most unusual severity
This communication it pleased him to begin in a tone of most unusual severity.
— from Sons of the Morning by Eden Phillpotts

although the old man understood sometimes
But although the old man understood, sometimes very well, and always in a fair degree, what the inventor was trying to accomplish, and appreciated the magnitude and often the amazing nature of his operations, he never believed in any of them.
— from The Great Stone of Sardis by Frank Richard Stockton

and the old man ud stay
"First one joker in, then another, and the old man 'ud stay open all night for a tanner.
— from The Workingman's Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel by John Miller

all those of my unwearied service
[45] have I devoted so many weeks to his service, and yet a few hours from the truant Lucy give him more pleasure than all those of my unwearied service!"
— from Mabel: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Newby, C. J., Mrs.

at times one might unthinkingly suppose
As for the sum total of the work left by L——, its very best, it might be said that although he was not a great psychologist, still, owing to a certain pretentiousness of assertion at times, one might unthinkingly suppose he was.
— from Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser

a town of Minnesota United States
Faribault , a town of Minnesota, United States, 53 miles south of St. Paul's.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Estremoz to Felspar Volume 4, Part 3 by Various


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