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fairly pushed my poor master into
And opening the door himself he fairly pushed my poor master into the head master’s study.
— from The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch by Talbot Baines Reed

first put my poor man in
Ye hae first put my poor man in prison, a place where he little thought, and less deserved, ever to be; and now ye are reaving his sackless family out
— from The Shepherd's Calendar. Volume I (of II) by James Hogg

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