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for your nerves
I have a high respect for your nerves.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

fold Ysdori n
Er ys dyddiau, a good while Ysbagiad, n. a clawing Ysbagu, v. to claw, to clutch Ysbryd, n. a spirit, a ghost Ysbryrdiaeth, n. spirituality Ysbrydol, a. spiritual, ghostly Ysbrydoldeb, n. spiritualness Ysbrydoli, v. to spiritualise Ysbrydoliaeth, n. inspiration Ysbytty, n. an hospital Ysdillio, v. to plait, to fold Ysdori, n. history, story Ysdorïad, n. a telling a story Ysdorïo, v. to tell a story Ysdwriad, n. a threatening Ysdwrio, v. to chide; to threat Ysdyferiad, n. distillation Ysdyferu, v. to distil, to drop Ysdyfnig, a. obstinate, stubborn Ysdyfnigrwydd, n. stubbornness Ysenyd, n. a space, a while Ysfa, n. a consumed spot; an itching; a sheep walk Ysgadan, n. herrings
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

for your numscull
This is not the first time I have suffered for your numscull's pate.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

for you now
"But what I do for you now?" There was plenty for him to do, and admirably the faithful fellow did it.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

fear you never
but I wouldnt let him he was awfully put out first for fear you never know consumption or leave me with a child embarazada that old servant Ines told me that one drop even if it got into you at all after I tried with the Banana
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

for years not
Such is the method of the ecclesiastical historian in modern as well as in ancient times, as the following two examples will shew: Pastor de le Roi, Jewish missionary historian, has for years not only collected statistics of Jewish converts in various churches, and summed up the whole number as being 224,000 in the nineteenth century, but he has also furnished us with a great deal of information concerning the history of many of these converts.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

fairy you no
,” said the good King, “since you are a fairy you no doubt know all my wishes.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

from you now
And let me tell you, as I wish to hide nothing from you now, that he positively spat at me.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

find you not
I went to Garden Court to find you; not finding you, I went to Clarriker's to find Mr. Herbert.”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

from Yorkshire Nicholas
‘Mr. Smike is from Yorkshire, Nicholas, my dear?’ said Mrs. Nickleby, after dinner, and when she had been silent for some time.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

for you non
"For me, mais oui , but for you, non .
— from The Blower of Bubbles by Beverley Baxter

five years not
I have heard in the last five years not less than twenty renderings of what is commonly called "the great K. & A. train-robbery,"—some so twisted and distorted that but for the intermediate versions I should never have recognized them as attempts to narrate the series of events in which I played a somewhat prominent part.
— from The Great K. & A. Robbery by Paul Leicester Ford

forgotten your name
And so you are at Yale—Matson—you see I haven’t forgotten your name.
— from Baseball Joe at Yale; or, Pitching for the College Championship by Lester Chadwick

for your next
Here, foster brothers, I drink to your oath of friendship and better luck for your next voyage.
— from Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger by August Strindberg

friend you need
Sitting down, he took my hand in both of his and said: "My dear little friend, you need not mind any of the quarrels!
— from Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Margot Asquith

five years note
Colombia bicameral Congress or Congreso consists of the Senate or Senado (102 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms) and the House of Representatives or Camara de Representantes (166 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve four-year terms) elections: Senate - last held 10 March 2002 (next to be held NA March 2006); House of Representatives - last held 10 March 2002 (next to be held NA March 2006) election results: Senate - percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - PL 28, PSC 13, independents and smaller parties (many aligned with conservatives) 61; House of Representatives - percent of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - PL 54, PSC 21, independents and other parties 91 Comoros unicameral Assembly of the Union (30 seats; half the deputies are selected by the individual islands' local assemblies and the other half by universal suffrage; deputies serve for five years) note - elections for the former legislature, the Federal Assembly, dissolved in 1999, where held on 1 and 8 December 1996; the next elections for the Assembly of the Union were scheduled to be held in April 2003 but have yet to occur Congo, Democratic Republic of the a 300-member Transitional Constituent Assembly established in August 2000 elections:
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

for you not
“Child,” she said, slowly, “it were better for you not to see that photograph.
— from The Yellow House; Master of Men by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

followed Yasmini not
The two maids held their candle-lanterns high, and, striding like a soldier, Ranjoor Singh followed Yasmini, not caring that the maids shut the heavy door behind him and bolted it.
— from The Winds of the World by Talbot Mundy

for you not
The best plan will be for you not to buy anything for me till I get my holidays, when my father is to bring me to London.
— from My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie


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