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know us long long ago
It's so funny she didn't know us long, long ago—find us out, I mean.'
— from A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote) by Algernon Blackwood

keep us lest like Ananias
Teach and keep us, lest, like Ananias, our profession of living [Pg 41] entirely for Thee be belied, by our giving to Thee.
— from Money: Thoughts for God's Stewards by Andrew Murray

known unknown land lovely and
By the strange peculiarity of dreams that we so seldom dream about any grief that oppresses us at the time but generally of something quite different, she thought she was in some known unknown land, lovely and beautiful, with blue hills rising in the distance, and blue seas creeping and curling on to the shore.
— from Mistress and Maid: A Household Story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

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