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gives us liberty perhaps he
If the Lord gives us liberty, perhaps he’ll give you back your daughter; at any rate, I’ll be like a daughter to you.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Greek under Leonzio Pilato has
It is for this reason that Tedaldo della Casa, who studied Greek under Leonzio Pilato, has, with greater probability, been suggested as one of the three Florentines (Baldelli).
— from Petrarch's Letters to Classical Authors by Francesco Petrarca

grip upon life prevented her
"Her want of confidence in herself and of grip upon life prevented her from having the influence which her experience of the world and real insight might have given her; and her want of expansion prevented her own generation and discouraged ours from approaching her closely.
— from Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Margot Asquith

get up linen ply her
She may get up linen, ply her needle, keep weaving-machines in motion, knit, sew, and in higher spheres in life teach music, French, and English grammar.
— from Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

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