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Josiah Allen you are not talkin
" Sez I, "Josiah Allen, you are not talkin' Bible.
— from Samantha at Saratoga by Marietta Holley

joking apart you are not to
I have something to say to you, and, joking apart, you are not to breathe a word of it to a soul—sh?"
— from Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas by Pierre Souvestre

just a year after Narses to
In 568, just a year after Narses, to gratify a personal spite, had invited the hornet swarm of Lombards to cross the Alps, he died in the city he had insulted.
— from Italian Yesterdays, vol. 2 by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.

justified anger you are not there
'No,' I cried in the voice of justified anger, 'you are not there—you are here, at the very beginning of the mountain.
— from Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Jenny Ann you are not to
"See here, Miss Jenny Ann, you are not to worry over us.
— from Madge Morton's Secret by Amy D. V. Chalmers

just a year after Narses to
In 568, just a year after Narses, to gratify a personal [14] spite, had invited the hornet swarm of Lombards to cross the Alps, he died in the city he had insulted.
— from More Italian Yesterdays by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.

Jimps and you are not to
That's the whole thing, Jimps, and you are not to reproach yourself, particularly now when——" She faltered suddenly, and he drew a quick breath that was as if something stabbed him.
— from Under the Country Sky by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond


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