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I shall require him as

And as for the king for whom I fight for, I shall require him, as I am his true champion and true knight in this field, that he will have mercy upon this good knight.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

it should really happen as

“Oh! mamma dear, suppose it should really happen as that kind M. Vautrin said!” said Victorine with a sigh as she looked at her hands.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

I shall remain here as

I shall remain here as long as the wind blows, and enjoy a little rest.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

If she really had as

If she really had, as she said, caught her sleeve in it and upset everything, why had Nikolay Sergeitch dashed out of her room so excited and red in the face?
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I should remain here asked

“Would you not wish, captain, that Ayrton and I should remain here?” asked the sailor.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Indeed she remembers HELIOTROPE and

Indeed, she remembers HELIOTROPE and CHRYSANTHEMUM more readily than she does shorter names.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

in some rich house and

Entirely alone in the world, without parents or brothers and sisters, he left the town whose authorities inspired in him such great fear and went to Manila to work in some rich house and study at the same time, as many do.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

I sometimes remained hours and

I sometimes remained hours and hours looking at a little watch of the last century.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I soon recognized him as

His voice, manner, and all about him told me that I had known him, and in fact I soon recognized him as the Abbe Gama, whom I had left at Rome seventeen years before with Cardinal Acquaviva; but I pretended not to recognize him, and indeed he had aged greatly.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I still remember how astonished

I still remember how astonished I was during my month of learning about buttons and links and about surfing by association, objects and images.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

imagination she regarded herself as

The prospect at once exalted her hopes, and enraptured her imagination; she regarded herself as an agent of Charity, and already in idea anticipated the rewards of a good and faithful delegate; so animating are the designs of disinterested benevolence!
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

I should readily have acknowledged

Had he ventured, in a presumption on such secret agitations of mind, to teach or to do any thing not warranted by the dictates of sound sense and the word of God, I should readily have acknowledged him an enthusiast, unless he could have produced some other evidence than his own persuasion to have supported the authority of them.
— from The Life of Col. James Gardiner Who Was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745 by Philip Doddridge

I should recognize him at

“It is his build, his height; and yet—no—if—Monsieur le Juge,” she said, “if I could see his chest I should recognize him at once.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

is still retained however and

The name is still retained, however, and applied to the introductory, or, to use Mr. Boucicault's word, "proloquial" acts of certain long and complicated plays, which seem to require for their due comprehension the exhibition to the audience of events antecedent to the real subject of the drama.
— from A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook

into school resources have a

To charge that the various activities of gardening, weaving, construction in wood, manipulation of metals, cooking, etc., which carry over these fundamental human concerns into school resources, have a merely bread and butter value is to miss their point.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

in strong relief here a

The terraced town stood out in strong relief, here a dome and there a tower overlooking the tall [Pg 318] stone warehouses, while the slender tracery of the shipping appeared like spider's webs.
— from The Story of Malta by Maturin Murray Ballou

Intellect still really human and

One noble man, at once of natural wisdom and practical experience; one Intellect still really human, and not red-tapish, owlish and pedantical, appearing there in that dim chaos, with word of command; to brandish Hercules-like the divine broom and shovel, and turn running water in upon the place, and say as with a fiat, "Here shall be truth, and real work, and talent to do it henceforth; I will seek for able men to work here, as for the elixir of life to this poor place and me:"—what might not one such man effect there!
— from Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle

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