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cherish Yet each season I shun
The winter I cherish, Yet each season I shun; Half living in harvest, In summer, undone!
— from Merry's Book of Puzzles by J. N. (John Newton) Stearns

community yet each superior in size
It was a new one, the latest creation of a feverish progress in hotel-building which had covered five years and as many squares with large showy erections, utterly beyond the needs of the community, yet each superior in size and adornment to its predecessor.
— from The Three Partners by Bret Harte

criticizing your elder sister I should
"If you have finished criticizing your elder sister, I should like to ask you a few questions.
— from The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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