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because I really know so
I am silent because I really know so little about it, but next day I meet another Protestant and I say to him, "I suppose it's Rome rule that is killing Ireland?"
— from Just Irish by Charles Battell Loomis

boy in red knickerbocker suit
Jack the Giant Killer , boy in red knickerbocker suit, red plumed cap, large sword.
— from A Party in Mother Goose Land: A One Act Play for Primary Children by Effa E. (Effa Estelle) Preston

by Imperial rescript Khattí Sheríf
Indeed, the Páshá was a Commander-in-Chief (Serdár), who by Imperial rescript (Khattí Sheríf) was allowed even to use the Túghra, or cypher of the Sultán.
— from Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II by Evliya Çelebi

believe it refused King stoutly
"I don't believe it," refused King stoutly.
— from Red Pepper's Patients With an Account of Anne Linton's Case in Particular by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

but in reality keeping sharp
Its appearance as it sits apparently sunning itself, but in reality keeping sharp lookout for prey, is the perfect counterfeit of innocence.
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 10 No. 1 [June 1901] by Various

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