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But let us really return
But let us really return to the living, if that be possible.
— from Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè by Giovanni Duprè

be locked up retorted Randy
"It is Bob ought to be locked up," retorted Randy.
— from Randy of the River; Or, The Adventures of a Young Deckhand by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

but let us rather remember
[1212] —"Don't think about the Innocents of the calendar," replied Jauch, "but let us rather remember the innocents that we have left in our cottages."
— from History of the Great Reformation, Volume 4 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

by Louis unscrupulous respectable relatives
He hated Louis because Louis was spick and span, and quiet, and because Louis had been palmed off on him by Louis' unscrupulous respectable relatives as an honest man.
— from The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett

But let us rather rosy
No more let fate's annoys our peace consume, But let us rather rosy wine consume, The world our murderer is, and wine its blood, Shall we not then that murderer's blood consume?
— from The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

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