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jumping up but you
"Heaven knows, you ain't t' git much to eat," she cried, jumping up, "but you ain't goin' to git anythin' a tall if I don't run right off and tend to them biscuit."
— from The Claim Jumpers: A Romance by Stewart Edward White

join us but You
I’d ask you to join us, but—— You wouldn’t get on with theatrical people; you rather—I know, so you needn’t deny it—you rather despise them.
— from Slaves of Freedom by Coningsby Dawson

Jump up behind you
So, "Jump up behind, you old blackguard," I called to him as I drew up alongside, and up he climbed, cling-to his seedy bag and protesting that this was very much more than he deserved.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 by Various

join us by your
You, sage and scholar, Felix Ruvigny, honoured alike for the profundity of your science and the probity of your manners, induced to join us by your abhorrence of priestcraft and superstition,—you made a wide connection among all the enlightened reasoners who would emancipate the mind of man from the trammels of Church-born fable, and when the hour arrives in which it is safe to say, ‘Delenda est Roma,’ you know where to find the pens that are more victorious than swords against a Church and a Creed.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

jump up beside you
"Then mount the box and I'll jump up beside you," De Craye called out, after the passion of regretful astonishment had melted from his features.
— from The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith

judge us but you
We will here transcribe a speech which one of the four councils makes Constantine the Great address to the bishops: “God has given “you the powers to judge us; but you cannot be “judged by any man.
— from The Project Gutenberg Collection of Works by Freethinkers With Linked On-line and Off-line Indexes to 157 Volumes by 90 Authors; Plus Indexes to 15 other Author's Multi-Volume Sets. by Various

judge us by you
Remember that the world will judge us by you."
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

jumped upon before you
And anyhow you’d have been tripped up and jumped upon before you had run three yards.
— from Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad

judge us by yourselves
Please don't judge us by yourselves again—you licentious-minded married people!
— from Why Marry? by Jesse Lynch Williams


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