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Boy I shall consider upon some
The Boy I shall consider upon some other Occasion, and at present stick to the Girl:
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

be in some cases used simply
It might be, in some cases, used simply as a sort of euphonic rounding-off of a name which might seem meagre and insignificant without something of the sort.
— from Surnames as a Science by Robert Ferguson

by inch she crawled up so
Slowly, inch by inch, she crawled up, so slowly that it seemed as if she would take a thousand years to get there.
— from Fifty-Two Story Talks to Boys and Girls by Howard J. (Howard James) Chidley

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