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dalága If you avoid love affairs
Kun maglikay ka sa gugmagugma matigúlang kang dalága, If you avoid love affairs you’ll become an old maid.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

deny it you appeared like a
In truth it was just in time, madame; I cannot deny it, you appeared like a goddess of antiquity, in the nick of time to save my life."
— from Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas

do I yawned and looked at
Time was heavy, and for want of something better to do, I yawned, and looked at my watch.
— from The Battle of Gettysburg by Franklin Aretas Haskell

Draw in your armchair light a
“Draw in your armchair, light a cigar or a pipe, and tell us all [many celebrated actors were present] some of those wonderful bogie stories about dear St Andrews.
— from St. Andrews Ghost Stories Fourth Edition by William Thomas Linskill

delicate it yields a little as
Observe however that when on the one hand the tendinous portion predominates much, and on the other that it is very delicate, it yields a little, as we see in the small plantar and palmar muscles.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

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