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find a living soul in the yard
I didn't find a living soul in the yard, but on the ground, near one of the open sheds, I came upon a chisel wrapped in a newspaper.
— from The High School Boys' Canoe Club by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

for a little said I think you
Robert, after looking at him for a little, said: ‘I think you are Mr. Baillie.’
— from A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language by Walter Simson

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