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celebrated young monarch Edward
The premature death of that celebrated young monarch, Edward the Sixth, occasioned the most extraordinary and wonderful occurrences, which had ever existed from the times of our blessed Lord and Saviour's incarnation in human shape.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

cite you millions exclaimed
"Of institutions of that kind I could cite you millions," exclaimed Paul Petrovitch.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

concern you making everybody
You're a great deal too fond of poking your nose into things that don't concern you, making everybody in the house laugh, the moment your back is turned, and making yourself look like a fool every hour in the day.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Charles you must endeavour
“Quite right, my love; my dear Charles, you must endeavour to follow the wishes of your of aunt.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

child your mother even
Perhaps I might have been better friends with that poor child your mother, even after your sister Betsey Trotwood disappointed me.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Courage ye Municipal Electors
Courage, ye Municipal Electors!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

change your master eh
You would like to change your master, eh?
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

call you my excellent
I call you my excellent father, having no more honourable appellation to bestow, since I owe a greater debt of gratitude to you than to him who begot me.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Chevreuse you must excuse
“Sir,” said Madame de Chevreuse, “you must excuse me, but I long to know to whom I am talking.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

course you must either
Moreover, there is no middle course; you must either make no demands on him at all, or else you must fashion him to perfect obedience.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Carson you must excuse
"Carson, you must excuse me; I'm queer to-night ...
— from Poppy: The Story of a South African Girl by Cynthia Stockley

course you must eat
"Of course you must eat your duck!"
— from The Killer by Stewart Edward White

Come you must enter
Come, you must enter, or our friends will be disappointed, and look upon you in the light of an enemy.”
— from The Prime Minister by William Henry Giles Kingston

condition you may easily
In a condition you may easily imagine, I reached Elgin and dried myself.
— from The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton

Can you measure em
" "Can you measure 'em off handy and careless loike, so that a body wonders if you ain't makin' a mistake, and measures 'em over after you when they gets home, and then foinds it's all roight and trusts you the nixt toime?
— from The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys by Gulielma Zollinger

curved yellow mark each
The under side of the abdomen has the usual middle dark area, with a curved yellow mark each side of it.
— from The Common Spiders of the United States by J. H. (James Henry) Emerton

chords your music ere
Give o'er, ye chords, your music ere ye tire, Be sweetly mute, O lyre.
— from Poems by George Santayana

can You may expect
however can—" "You may expect me to-night; at ten o'clock.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

correct you may even
You will virtually be a prisoner, and if certain of my suspicions are correct you may even find the post one of great physical danger.
— from The Betrayal by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim


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