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call your treatment of me eh
What do you call your treatment of me, eh?”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

count you the old man eloquent
You were ever eloquent in your more active years, but I count you the old man eloquent and incomparable in your eighties.
— from My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew

concerning you through our most excellent
But all Mary's preconceived plans were threatened with a downfall by the receipt of the following letter from Miss Jacky:— GLENFERN CASTLE, —-SHIRIE, June 19, 181—. "It is impossible for language to express to you the shame, grief, amazement, and indignation, with which we are all filled at the distressing, the ignominious disclosure that has just taken place concerning you, through our most excellent friend Miss P.
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier

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