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it but I leave it to you
I shall not live to do it; but I leave it to you.
— from Samba: A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang

independent business in London in the year
180 At first associated with Ramsden, a renowned mechanic, he established himself in an independent business in London in the year 1790.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

it but I leave it to your
I do not ask your pledge to keep it, but I leave it to your honor till I am dead.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 2, February 1847 by Various

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