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calls all de ladies and gemmen
Dese barbariums calls all de ladies and gemmen sinner-dones an' sinner- doners.
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

child and daughter Lilith a grave
Moreover, he gave his one child and daughter Lilith a grave lecture on sisterly companionship, advised her to study Igraine’s gentle manners, and to profit by her aristocratic and educated influence.
— from Uther and Igraine by Warwick Deeping

cheeks and dress like a girl
She had no heart, and was silly enough, even though she was seventy years old, to wear rouge on her cheeks and dress like a girl of seventeen.
— from Tales from Dickens by Charles Dickens

carnage and destruction loss and gain
Another month of revelations and reticences, of carnage and destruction, loss and gain, with the miracle of the Marne as the first great sign of the turning of the tide.
— from Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

commandments and doing lovingly and gladly
He enlarges on this in the festival sermons in his Church-Postils, and says: When I am made aware by faith, that, through the Son of God Who died for me, I am able to “resist and flaunt sin, death, devil, hell and every ill, then I cannot but love Him in return and be well disposed towards Him, keeping His commandments and doing lovingly and gladly everything He asks”; the heart will then show itself full “of gratitude and love.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

crackpots and dodging lawsuits and getting
I'm busy raising money and fighting off crackpots and dodging lawsuits and getting supplies!
— from Operation: Outer Space by Murray Leinster

content all day long and generally
It must suffice that he eats and twitters and squabbles to his heart’s content all day long, and generally enjoys himself at the expense of the cultivator.
— from Glimpses of Indian Birds by Douglas Dewar

civil and domestic life and giving
The whole is after the manner of the Proverbs of Solomon, only with much greater particularity of details, extending to all the spheres of religious, civil, and domestic life, and giving rules of conduct for the regulation of the same.
— from Companion to the Bible by E. P. (Elijah Porter) Barrows


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