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in modern parlance laying certain

[237] Or, in modern parlance, "laying certain plans."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

in my pocket little caring

I received it in their presence, but despising the hand that wrote it I put it in my pocket, little caring what infamous stuff it contained.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

i miei pensieri la cagion

Fra tutti i miei pensieri la cagion ne ricerco e non la trovo.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

in my poor low contemptible

And this is a reason to the purpose; it is as if he had said, Father, these have continued with me in my temptations; these have seen me under all my disadvantages; these have seen me in my poor, low, contemptible condition; these have seen what scorn, reproach, slanders, and disgrace I have borne for thy sake in the world; and now I will have them also be where they shall see me in my glory.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

in my poor little circumstances

I am seriously ashamed of him, and if he was to ask my advice what he should do, I think I cou'd only beg him to do nothing: that Man's whole life is a sort of consolation to me in my poor little circumstances.
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of

In many parts loaves called

In many parts loaves, called cuzza , are given to the poor with small doles of money, 61 and sometimes bean soup.
— from Tyrol and Its People by Clive Holland

is Mary Pickford like castor

* * * Dear Captain —Why is Mary Pickford like castor oil?— Hollywood Holly.
— from Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 17, February, 1921 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy by Various

its most perfect loveliness commences

Within a circuit of thirty miles from London no land lies more beautifully circumstanced with regard to scenery than the country about Hamworth; and its most perfect loveliness commences just beyond the slopes of Orley Farm.
— from Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

it may perhaps lay claim

It is the age which saw the crystallization of the party-system, and therein it may perhaps lay claim to have recognized what Bagehot called the vital principle of representative government.
— from Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski

in my past life came

As I lay in bed, or ever I slept, all that was fairest in my past life came back to me as clearly as if it were living truth, and first and chiefest I saw myself as little Red-riding-hood, under the forest-trees with Gotz, who did me a thousand services and preferred me above all others till, for Gertrude’s sake, he departed beyond seas, and set my childish soul in a turmoil.
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Complete by Georg Ebers

in my position LADY CHESHIRE

Would you like to put yourself in my position? LADY CHESHIRE.
— from The Eldest Son by John Galsworthy

is my poor little cousin

"That is my poor, little cousin," explained Arthur.
— from Chester Rand; or, The New Path to Fortune by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

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