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from your record kept
As far as I can judge from your record kept here, you have done nothing to earn your money for the last three years.”
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

for your roughness kiss
So just you ask her pardon now for your roughness, kiss her little hand and take her to vespers.
— from A Bride of the Plains by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

friends you really know
With the exception of Philip Cotter, Dick Chetwynd, and two or three other of my friends, you really know very few people.
— from Colonel Thorndyke's Secret by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

from your revolver kept
"The blow from your revolver kept me in the hospital for some time.
— from The Lost Despatch by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

following year Robert Kinder
Trevethick, the engineer, in 1815, patented “a worm or screw revolving in a cylinder at the head, sides, or stern of a vessel;” and the following year, Robert Kinder applied for a patent for a shaft and screw almost of exactly the form now in use.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper

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