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goes your pet Sammy eh
‘There goes your pet, Sammy, eh?’ ‘Ah!
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

get your privileges soon enough
'Where are my priwileges?' 'You'll get your privileges soon enough,' retorted the jailer, 'and pepper with 'em.' 'We'll see wot the Secretary of State for the Home Affairs has got to say to the beaks, if I don't,' replied Mr. Dawkins.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

get your privileges soon enough
‘You’ll get your privileges soon enough,’ retorted the jailer, ‘and pepper with ‘em.’
— from Cruikshank's Water Colours by William Harrison Ainsworth

get your privileges soon enough
“You’ll get your privileges soon enough,” retorted the jailer, “and pepper with ’em.”
— from Oliver Twist, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Charles Dickens

Gay young people seize every
Gay young people seize every salient point of enjoyment.
— from A Little Girl in Old Washington by Amanda M. Douglas

gallant young preserver seemed equally
Both the maiden and her gallant young preserver seemed equally surprised, at the announcement of each others' name and character: the former, because it suggested questions in the solution of which she felt an interest, but which, with the characteristic prudence of her race, she forbore to ask; and the latter, because he found it hard to realize that the fair-complexioned and every way beautiful girl, who stood before him, readily speaking his own language, and neatly and even richly arrayed in the usual female habiliments of the day, with the single exception of the gay, beaded moccasins, that enveloped her small feet and ankles,—found it extremely difficult to realize that one of such an exterior, and of so much evident culture, could possibly have descended from the tawny and uncultivated sons of the forest.
— from Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

got your perfect system established
Let-alone is good policy after you have once got your perfect system established to let alone.
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol. 1/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

get your privileges soon enough
“‘You’ll get your privileges soon enough,’ retorted the gaoler, ‘and pepper with ’em.’
— from In Jail with Charles Dickens by Alfred Trumble


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