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know oodles of nice girls
"Then we can come out here part of the time and live, and we can invite a lot of girls out for the summer—I just know oodles of nice girls—and Tex can manage the ranch, and——" "Match-making already!" laughed Endicott.
— from The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

king of our Northern game
The ruffled grouse may be called the king of our Northern game birds.
— from Harper's Young People, November 29, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

knowledge of our national generosity
They showed great disinterestedness in their dealings with me, doing me many a piece of service without a hint at remuneration; but this may have been partly due to the name of Englishman, the knowledge of our national generosity towards the African race being spread far and wide amongst the Brazilian negroes.
— from The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates

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