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him unless you need him
The driver to be accompanied by a uniformed assistant who will sit beside him unless you need him inside—if there is a struggle.
— from Dreamy Hollow: A Long Island Romance by Sumner Charles Britton

Hotel up yonder Never hancient
I'm a waiter at the sea-side; There's the "Grand Hotel" up yonder— Never hancient Rome or Greece eyed Poet of the Summer fonder.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 September 23, 1893 by Various

himself upon your notice here
"And you have heard nothing from him since the day he obtruded himself upon your notice here in the woods?"
— from Ellen Walton Or, The Villain and His Victims by Alvin Addison

He used your name he
He used your name; he made that an excuse.
— from Desert Dust by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

heaped upon your noble head
"Perhaps they have called you so in days gone by; but from this day they will call you 'Master,' and will crave your pardon for the obloquy they have heaped upon your noble head."
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach


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