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know it little Lois I seem
" "Do I?" "Do you not know it, little Lois?" "I seem to know it, somehow....
— from The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

keep it low lest it should
He must have been asking himself the same question, for he broke the silence in a changed voice which seemed doubly changed, because he had to keep it low, lest it should be overheard, and what he said was, "How comes all this, sir?"
— from The Black Colonel by James Milne

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