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call you nothing only I did
"No, sir," says I, "I call you nothing; only I did not understand your speech.
— from The Rose of Paradise Being a detailed account of certain adventures that happened to captain John Mackra, in connection with the famous pirate, Edward England, in the year 1720, off the Island of Juanna in the Mozambique Channel; writ by himself, and now for the first time published by Howard Pyle

call you number one in declamation
number one in arithmetic, history, and geography; and to-day I've no doubt we shall call you number one in declamation.
— from The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems by Various

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