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for em to come home any minute
I'm lookin' for 'em to come home any minute now.
— from The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

folds especially the cephalic hood already mentioned
Again, the upper cutaneous folds, especially the cephalic hood already mentioned, having the power of expanding at will by an afflux of blood, covered with a thick coriaceous epidermis, and moved by four strong muscles, seems to me very capable of performing the operation.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

feels entitled to call himself a member
The author of this memoir—being so little of a politician that he scarcely feels entitled to call himself a member of any party—would not voluntarily have undertaken the work here offered to the public.
— from Sketches and Studies by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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