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look at my picture Alicia she said
"And they had the audacity to look at my picture, Alicia," she said, with mock indignation.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

large and majestic person and strong square
He was an elderly man, of large and majestic person, and strong, square features, betokening a steady soul; but steady as it was, his enemies had found means to shake it.
— from The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne

looked at me pityingly and said Say
When I inquired of him just what a short-stop is, he looked at me pityingly and said: “Say, are you a greenhorn?”
— from The Immigrant Tide, Its Ebb and Flow by Edward Alfred Steiner

lemonade and milk puntch and sum sider
I like lemonade, and milk puntch, and sum sider, but mineral water aint mi fort.
— from The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Josh Billings

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