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knife or dagger I should have
With a knife or dagger I should have to strike twice, and even if I had the courage for the first--for the second
— from The Hour Will Come: A Tale of an Alpine Cloister. Volumes I and II by Wilhelmine von Hillern

kind of definition I should have
If I wanted that kind of definition I should have to consider in the first place how people generally used the word ‘good’; but my business is not with its proper usage, as established by custom.
— from Principia Ethica by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

kind of disproportionate intensity suggesting his
It was as if in separation, even the shortest, she half forgot or disbelieved how he affected her sight, so that reappearance had, in him, each time, a virtue of its own—a kind of disproportionate intensity suggesting his connection with occult sources of renewal.
— from The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 by Henry James

known of Danâe if she had
Who would have known of Danâe, if she had been for ever shut up, and if, till an old woman, she had continued concealed in her tower?
— from Ars Amatoria; or, The Art Of Love Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes by Ovid

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