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just as you say
just as you say, replied the smiling Jack, who had been in no wise confused by his tumble.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

justly as your soul
And though you know my inwardness and love Is very much unto the Prince and Claudio, Yet, by mine honour, I will deal in this As secretly and justly as your soul Should with your body.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

just as you say
'It is just as you say.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

just as you stubbed
I can do the one hundred things beyond the next thing, but I stub my toe on that, just as you stubbed your toe on mathematics this fall.”
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Jim are you scared
Even the president, as he entered, smiled patronizingly at him, and asked: "Well, Jim, are you scared?"
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

jest and yet speak
[805] Quamvis ridentem dicere verum quid velat ; one may speak in jest, and yet speak truth.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

just as you sat
“Would you mind sitting on the chair just as you sat on the wall then and showing us just how you moved your arm, and in what direction?”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Jack are you serious
Jack: are you serious or are you not? TANNER.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

just as you say
“Well now, it’s just as you say, of course, Marilla,” said Matthew rising and putting his pipe away.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

just as you see
Those two maiden aunts are living in a little bungalow that she's built for them out in a suburb of Chicago today; and me—I'm on the job right here just as you see me.
— from Tragedies of the White Slave by H. M. Lytle

Just as you say
"Just as you say, ma'am."
— from Only an Irish Boy; Or, Andy Burke's Fortunes by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

jubilant and yet solemn
The air was grand; the words had a sonorous swell that suited it, and they seemed to me jubilant and yet solemn.
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

journey and your suffering
Mr. Congreve's suffering during the journey and your suffering in watching him saddens me as I think of it.
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 (of 3) by George Eliot

just as you see
As he received them he gave them to one of his barge-men, William Fearney, who, with no little pleasure, tucked them under his arm, just as you see in the picture in the Painted Hall yonder.
— from The Story of Nelson also "The Grateful Indian", "The Boatswain's Son" by William Henry Giles Kingston

just and yet so
The herald ends: The vaulted firmament With loud acclaims and vast applause is rent: Heaven guard a prince so gracious and so good, So just, and yet so provident of blood!
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11 by John Dryden

Just as you say
Just as you say, sir.”
— from The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview by Edward Stratemeyer


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