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full o rum but I don

It's mighty easy to die with your head full o' rum, but I don't go for to choose it meself, not particler.
— from The Iron Pirate: A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea by Max Pemberton

fond of reading but it didn

Billy knew a great deal more than all the rest of the boys in our school, and he was very fond of reading, but it didn't make him stupid a bit, for whatever he read about he always wanted to go right off and see if he could do it too.
— from Harper's Young People, November 18, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

forfeited our regard but I dread

Nothing you have ever done has forfeited our regard, but I dread that when Colonel Armytage returns he will not treat you in the way that we would desire.
— from Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval War by William Henry Giles Kingston

founded on rationalism but is divinely

Tolstoy declares that Christianity is not founded on rationalism but is divinely inspired; he is original only so far as he insists that this divine inspiration occurs not in any Church or tradition, but in a man's own heart; like the seventeenth-century Puritans, he accepts the Bible as his guide, but he rejects the Old Testament and relies entirely upon the New.
— from Tolstoy by Lilian Winstanley

fathoms of rope but it did

The moment the captain perceived this, he ordered one of the warping machines, which was held in readiness, to be carried out with about four hundred fathoms of rope; but it did not produce the least effect: and our navigators had now in prospect the horrors of shipwreck.
— from Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook With an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis

For one reason because I don

"For one reason, because I don't like it."
— from The Thread of Flame by Basil King

fire of rifles but it did

He saw down the road puffs of smoke and heard the lashing fire of rifles, but it did not make his pulses beat any faster now.
— from The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

For one reason because I don

“Why not?” “For one reason because I don't want to.” “That's no reason at all.
— from Kent Knowles: Quahaug by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

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