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bob courtesy curtsy
V. oscillate; vibrate, librate[obs3]; alternate, undulate, wave; rock, swing; pulsate, beat; wag, waggle; nod, bob, courtesy, curtsy; tick; play; wamble[obs3], wabble[obs3]; dangle, swag.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

but consistently conclude
Our children do the same, as I have shown elsewhere, and therefore they are never satisfied with accepting a meaningless verbal similarity, but consistently conclude that when two things have identical names a deeper correspondence between them must exist.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

boy come come
Come hither, boy; come, come, come, and learn of us To melt in showers.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

breakfast children called
"The mush is ready; come to breakfast, children," called Mrs. Sterling, as she crossed the hall with a teapot in her hand.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

by Christopher Chattoc
In an article in the "Hebrew Christian Witness," 1875, by Christopher Chattoc, of Haye House, Castle Bromwich, Warwickshire, entitled "Traces of Early Anglo-Hebrew Christians from Authentic Sources," he says:—"All our best historians allege that, at the expulsion of the Jews from this country in 1290, about fifteen thousand were expelled.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

busy commercial city
Hierapolis, the gay watering place, the pleasant resort of idlers, had charms for them, as well as Laodicea the busy commercial city.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

bougie c c
Plate 59.--Figure 7. Fig. 8, Plate 59.--A bougie, c c, appears tearing and passing beneath the lining membrane, d d , of the prostatic urethra.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

by compulsory conscription
As he feared the Volscians would take a long time to prepare for the war, and that meanwhile the opportunity for attack might pass away, he ordered the leading men in the city to make all necessary preparations, and himself taking the boldest and most forward as volunteers, without levying any troops by compulsory conscription, made a sudden and unexpected inroad into the Roman territory.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

be concealed c
keep in the dark, leave in the dark, keep in the ignorance; blind, blind the eyes; blindfold, hoodwink, mystify; puzzle &c. (render uncertain) 475; bamboozle &c. (deceive) 545. be concealed &c. v.; suffer an eclipse; retire from sight, couch; hide oneself; lie hid, lie in perdu[Fr], lie in close; lie in ambush (ambush) 530; seclude oneself &c. 893; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal along; play at bopeep[obs3], play at hide and seek; hide in holes and corners; still hunt.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

been cooked can
As mentioned before, the water in which it has been cooked can be set away to be used for soup, with a few tips added if desired.
— from Cookery for Little Girls by Olive Hyde Foster

Bob conveniently coughed
The next day Bob conveniently coughed up a twenty-inch worm, which I could show to Isha.
— from Blood Brothers: A Medic's Sketch Book by Eugene C. Jacobs

Bellew came close
Mrs. Bellew came close to him.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

besides continued Caldwell
“And, besides,” continued Caldwell slowly, picking his words, “Vega is going to marry his daughter, and so we win both ways.
— from The White Mice by Richard Harding Davis

business could check
Other domestic bereavements likewise befell him, and other worldly cares and duties were laid upon his hands, but neither grief nor business could check the fertility of his brain.
— from Shakespeare's England by William Winter

by Chris Curnow
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— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Balfour can clear
Which of these reports is right must remain a matter of philosophic doubt unless Mr. Balfour can clear it up.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 by Various

been carefully considered
that case had been carefully considered and decision made at Assistant or Deputy Associate Commissioner level.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission


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