Just as your drawings always are, my dear.
— from Emma by Jane Austen
" "Remember, I'm the eldest after you, Brother, and prospered from the first, just as you did, and have got land already by the name of Featherstone," said Solomon, relying much on that reflection, as one which might be suggested in the watches of the night.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot
They blow hot and blow cold, just as you do, and it is the very last sort of thing to expect to find in a retreat like Talbothays. …
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy
“Because when I jumped out of the train this morning, two eyes glared at me just as yours did a moment since.”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I caught her singing that song he gave her, and once she said 'John,' as you do, and then turned as red as a poppy.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott
I caught her singing that song he gave her, and once she said 'John', as you do, and then turned as red as a poppy.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
But then if we admit suffering to be just and yet dishonourable, and the term 'dishonourable' is applied to justice, will not the just and the honourable disagree? CLEINIAS: What do you mean? ATHENIAN: A thing not difficult to understand; the laws which have been already enacted would seem to announce principles directly opposed to what we are saying.
— from Laws by Plato
You lead off—and I’ll follow and do just as you do, as near as I can.”
— from The Brighton Boys at Chateau-Thierry by James R. Driscoll
And then the best thing you can do is to put yourself under her instructions, and take her advice about your dress and such matters, just as you did about your hair.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 by Various
If they had called me 'Hapsie,' like you, I should have gone along jolly, as you do, and not minded.
— from Real Folks by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
Among the flowers, which we laid (just as you do) about the table, were to be seen, here a mouse, there a beetle; here a spider,” (Lady Muriel shuddered)
— from Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (Illustrated) by Lewis Carroll
I looked upon it jus' as you did, an' jus' as anybody in their common senses naturally would.
— from Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs by Anne Warner
You grinned at the individual just as you did at me when you went up to the cei—, pardon me, as I THOUGHT you did, when I fell down in a fit in your chambers;” and I qualified my words in a great flutter and tremble; I did not care to offend the man—I did not DARE to offend the man.
— from Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray
They make the meal for Sunday noon; And, if ever you eat one, let me beg You to manage it just as you do an egg.
— from Bitter-Sweet: A Poem by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland
“She went away quite suddenly, just after you did, and left all her things behind her.
— from The Gadfly by E. L. (Ethel Lillian) Voynich
"I came on a ship, just as you did," answered Umboo, and then he went on to tell how he was led away from the lumber yard.
— from Umboo, the Elephant by Howard Roger Garis
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