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be rendered you an

Since I have been used to resort hither, I have seen give out every day to a multitude of poor folk now one and now two vast great cauldrons of broth, which had been taken away from before yourself and the other brethren of this convent, as superfluous; wherefore, if for each one of these cauldrons of broth there be rendered you an hundred in the world to come, you will have so much thereof that you will assuredly all be drowned therein.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

by rule your air

Your garb and manner were restricted by rule; your air was often diffident, and altogether that of one refined by nature, but absolutely unused to society, and a good deal afraid of making herself disadvantageously conspicuous by some solecism or blunder; yet when addressed, you lifted a keen, a daring, and a glowing eye to your interlocutor’s face: there was penetration and power in each glance you gave; when plied by close questions, you found ready and round answers.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

both received yesterday and

The two portieres were both received yesterday; and besides these, there are the two hundred red woollen portieres, two hundred portieres of Hsiang Fei bamboo; two hundred door-screens of rattan, with gold streaks, and of red lacquered bamboo; two hundred portieres of black lacquered rattan; two hundred door-screens of variegated thread-netting with clusters of flowers.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

be resting yourself as

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much Page 6 [Pg 6] to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

be really you and

Can it be really you ... and at such an early age?
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

be reasonably young and

She can perfectly well be reasonably young, and a spinster.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

beg recover yourself and

Shake yourself a little, I beg, recover yourself, and do not give way so much to your imagination.
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

being reasonable yourself and

“Set me the example by being reasonable yourself, and let there be no more of this wild talk of leaving me the very moment you are come.
— from The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini

be rational yet as

They may not always be rational; yet, as they spring from a fixed principle, and proceed in an uninterrupted current, they may properly be termed systematic.
— from The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Sereno D. (Sereno Dickenson) Clark

broad roadstead yet a

Truly grand as was the spectacle afforded by the black hulls and white sails of this great concourse of ships at anchor, in the broad roadstead, yet a grander sight still was reserved for the next day, a lovely Sunday, as all these steamers in line ahead, the North Star leading, flags flying, bands playing, the decks blue with the soldiers of the Union,
— from History of the Nineteenth Army Corps by Richard B. (Richard Biddle) Irwin

blue red yellow and

Some of the decorative borders from four blocks, blue, red, yellow, and gray-green, he undoubtedly made and printed himself.
— from John Baptist Jackson: 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Jacob Kainen

be received young and

She had prayed to be received young and whole and without child.
— from A Poor Wise Man by Mary Roberts Rinehart

black red yellow and

[263] (4) 796-488 Flag description: seven equal horizontal bands of green, yellow, red, black, red, yellow, and green with a white isosceles triangle edged in black with its base on the hoist side; a yellow Zimbabwe bird representing the long history of the country is superimposed on a red five-pointed star in the center of the triangle, which symbolizes peace; green symbolizes agriculture, yellow - mineral wealth, red - blood shed to achieve independence, and black stands for the native people Economy Zimbabwe Economy - overview: The government of Zimbabwe faces a wide variety of difficult economic problems as it struggles with an unsustainable fiscal deficit, an overvalued exchange rate, soaring inflation, and bare shelves.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

be real you are

I think you must be real, you are so lovely!"
— from Five Mice in a Mouse-trap, by the Man in the Moon. by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

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