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give up replied Uncle Sam
"They were not the kind of people to give up," replied Uncle Sam.
— from The Coming of the White Men: Stories of How Our Country Was Discovered by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade

Getting up rather unsteadily she
Getting up rather unsteadily, she offered her hand to the cowboy, who, in his embarrassment, instantly dropped his bravado and half held out a limp paw for Grace to shake.
— from Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert by Josephine Chase

gave us retarded us so
The trouble these people gave us retarded us so long, that, before we were ready to heave the anchor, the wind began to increase, and blew in squalls out of the bay, so that we were obliged to lie fast.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr

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