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And he got it out and it was from the U.S. Department of State, saying "You registered as an alien" at such and such address.
— from Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission
I get a good deal of sleep since you have gone away, as I certainly do not sit up talking half the night with anybody else.
— from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble
"And that the most skilled pearl-stringer in England wasn't demobilized, or something; so you had to wait."
— from The Great Pearl Secret by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
The "Gladiator" wears a Number Six hat, and the "Discobolus" one size smaller; yet the figures represent men weighing one hundred eighty pounds each.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters by Elbert Hubbard
He often declared: “Oh, Spalatin, Spalatin, you cannot believe how devoted I am to this pretty maid; I will not die before I have brought things to such a pass that I also shall be able to marry a nice girl.”
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar
The establishment of tea shops, in all the large cities of America, is a new feature in the retail trade, dating only some six years back.
— from The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. (Peter Lund) Simmonds
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