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drawn into ludicrous lines of woe
But the poor little maid-of-all-work had no smile left in her; her sharp little face was puckered and drawn into ludicrous lines of woe; tears stood in her pale eyes.
— from The Young O'Briens: Being an Account of Their Sojourn in London by Margaret Westrup

Do I look like one who
Do I look like one who does not know his mind?”
— from Swallow: A Tale of the Great Trek by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

do I look like one who
Hassan, from whose brow the expression of anger had not yet passed away, looked at her in silence for a minute before he replied— “Khanum, do I look like one who could strike a woman?
— from Hassan; or, The Child of the Pyramid: An Egyptian Tale by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir

Do I look like one was
[Pg 308] "Do I look like one?" was my flippant reply.
— from From Job to Job around the World by Alfred C. B. (Alfred Charles Benson) Fletcher

Do I look like one who
"Do I look like one who would give him up, because of family objections?
— from Bab: A Sub-Deb by Mary Roberts Rinehart

during its long life of waste
Our position now is, therefore, while structure determines form as our earlier topographers taught, and while form-producing processes are slow, as had been demonstrated by the English geologists, that the sequence of forms assumed by a given structure during its long life of waste is determinate, and that the early or young forms are recognizably different from the mature forms and the old forms.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 1, October, 1888 by Various

Do I look like one who
Do I look like one who will fail, Marie?”
— from Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

do I look like one who
I ask you again—Do you take me for a man who would bamboozle you; or do I look like one who will prove true as steel, and fulfil all his engagements, as an honest man should do?
— from Afar in the Forest by William Henry Giles Kingston


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