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longing eyes and called her mother
It was the face of a beautiful girl, who looked upon her with longing eyes and called her "mother.
— from Jess of the Rebel Trail by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

laugh enough and certainly he makes
“People don’t laugh enough, and certainly he makes one laugh.
— from The Angel of Pain by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Lord Elgin anybody could have made
The work of negotiation, so far as the form went, seems to have fallen to Mr H. N. Lay, whose place was very soon to know him no more; 332 but, in the words of Lord Elgin, "anybody could have made the treaty."
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 1 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie

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