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how you do run on
Were you ever at a ball?" "No; how you do run on.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

heaven your disenchantment rested on
"No doubt your worship is enchanted, like my lady Dulcinea del Toboso," said Sancho; "and would to heaven your disenchantment rested on my giving myself another three thousand and odd lashes like what I'm giving myself for her, for I'd lay them on without looking for anything."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

how you do run on
They dreaded the chance shots from behind the hedge from the barrels of those masked banditti, called 'critics.'" "Dear me, how you do run on!
— from My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan

howms your dainty rucks of
But poortith, Peggy, is the warst of a', Gif o'er your heads ill chance shou'd beggary draw: Your nowt may die—the spate may bear away Frae aff the howms your dainty rucks of hay.—
— from The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy by Allan Ramsay

How you do run on
How you do run on!” said Mother, drowsily.
— from The Innocents: A Story for Lovers by Sinclair Lewis

heaven your disenchantment rested on
“No doubt your worship is enchanted, like my lady Dulcinea del Toboso,” said Sancho; “and would to heaven your disenchantment rested on my giving myself another three thousand and odd lashes like what I’m giving myself for her, for I’d lay them on without looking for anything.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

honest yet delicate reminder of
He chose the phrase as an honest yet delicate reminder of the compact made when last the two chums had ridden together.
— from Kincaid's Battery by George Washington Cable

how you do run on
how you do run on!
— from Patty and Azalea by Carolyn Wells

how you do run on
“Oh, doctor, how you do run on!”
— from The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

How you do run on
How you do run on!”
— from The Innocents: A Story for Lovers by Sinclair Lewis

has yet done R of
He has thus been able to give us a remarkable valuable account of the recent rivalries of the great European powers in Asiatic Turkey, and in his newest book he tells the story of the Bagdad railway more instructively for American readers than any other writer has yet done.” + R of Rs 57:214 F ‘18 170w 293 JATAKAS.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various


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