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for long years of patient study
It is a rare occurrence if we get one in ten thousand that really reaches this distinction in art, a just reward for long years of patient study.
— from Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake Alverson

fearful lest your own prejudices should
Chance has revealed to me many circumstances of your fortune, and even now, Mark, I am only fearful lest your own prejudices should hazard your safety.
— from The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

fire last year our postal savings
When Europe got on fire last year, our postal savings receipts began to increase by leaps and bounds.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

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