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girl is lonely expostulated Stella
'But that is rather selfish; Eva is living in the same house with you, and yet you take no notice of her except at meal-times, and the poor girl is lonely,' expostulated Stella.
— from A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends by May Baldwin

Go it Long Ears said
"Go it, Long Ears!" said he, encouragingly.
— from Seven Little People and their Friends by Horace Elisha Scudder

give it loose ere strengthen
Some dreadful thought is lab'ring for a vent, Haste, give it loose, ere strengthen'd by confinement It wrecks thy frame, and tears its snowy prison.
— from The Prince of Parthia A Tragedy by Thomas Godfrey

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