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face and read its expression so

As she made the confession, timidly hesitating, she raised her eyes to the face, and read its expression so plainly that she answered it.
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

from a rafter in Ed s

He was hangin' from a rafter in Ed's stable.
— from Anderson Crow, Detective by George Barr McCutcheon

for any rod I ever saw

I mourned, of course, the destruction of my favorite rod—the best I ever handled, which had served me, without a crack, for two years, and which I would not have exchanged for any rod I ever saw.
— from The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. by Various

fence all round it ever so

And here, right before you, make a little whitewashed log-cabin, with a Virginia fence all round it ever so far, and a bank on one side sloping down to a little brook, where honey-locust trees a-plenty grow.
— from Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and Diary by Daniel Dulany Addison

fall and reaped in early summer

Only winter 64 wheat, sown in the fall and reaped in early summer, is grown in the South, and the crop is somewhat uncertain.
— from The New South: A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution by Holland Thompson

find a retreat in England should

But my chief anxiety is for our domestic tranquillity; for I must find a retreat in England, should I be driven from Lausanne.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon

friendship and retouched in each successive

What, moreover, can be more agreeable, than for a man to read his own biography, especially when drawn by the partial hand of friendship, and retouched in each successive edition, as new circumstances require, new virtues are disclosed, and new deeds demand a record?
— from Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman by William L. (William Leete) Stone

false and reckless information eagerly summoned

For the chief magistrate of Ternier, on false and reckless information, eagerly summoned, as he is accustomed to do, John de Saint André before a public tribunal, charging him with having said before a public assembly, that whoever received the Supper on Christmas-day, received the devil and not Christ.
— from Letters of John Calvin, Volume II Compiled from the Original Manuscripts and Edited with Historical Notes by Jean Calvin

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