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know He appeared to the Apostles but
(1) Some hold that the reference is to the coming after His resurrection when we know He appeared to the Apostles but was unseen by the world.
— from The Gospel of St. John by Joseph MacRory

keeping house and the third a blind
She had three sisters, one of them a governess, another keeping house, and the third a blind girl.
— from The Odd Women by George Gissing

know him and they talked as before
And Jack brought out the suit of clothes he had brought away from the third giant, and she did not know him, and they talked as before.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 5 (of 8) The Celtic Twilight and Stories of Red Hanrahan by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

kills herself and the two are burnt
But Sigurd dies of his wound, and Brynhild then kills herself, and the two are burnt upon the same funeral pyre.
— from Pre-Raphaelite and other Poets by Lafcadio Hearn

Kosovar houses are three times as big
As a result, Kosovar houses are three times as big as Albanian ones and Kosovars used to be (up to the Kosovo conflict) three times richer (in terms of GDP per capita).
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin


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