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let em burn em Lidy
DRINKWATER (in intense distress, appealing to Lady Cicely) Down't let em burn em, Lidy.
— from Captain Brassbound's Conversion by Bernard Shaw

lemon extract being especially liable
It has this advantage over the distilled extract sold in the stores—country-stores especially, lemon extract being especially liable to spoil if kept for a few months, and tasting, when a little old, unfortunately like spirits of turpentine.
— from Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea by Marion Harland

loved everybody but especially little
Everybody loved him, for he loved everybody, but especially little children.
— from The Pearl of Love; or, Josey's Gift by Madeline Leslie

look ez big ez life
He had [41] his walkin' cane in one han' en a jug in de udder, en he look ez big ez life, en twice ez natchul.
— from The Book of Stories for the Story-teller by Fanny E. Coe

lectiones editionum Bezæ Elzeviri Lachmanni
Accedunt variæ lectiones editionum Bezæ, Elzeviri, Lachmanni, Tischendorfii, et Tregellesii.
— from The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Lectionibus Editionum Bezæ Elzeviri Lachmanni
half-bound morocco, 12 s. —— Textûs Stephanici, A.D. 1550, Cum variis Lectionibus Editionum Bezæ, Elzeviri, Lachmanni, Tischendorfii, Tregellesii, Westcott-Hortii, Versionis Anglicanæ Emendatorum, Curante F. H. A. Scrivener, A.M., D.C.L., LL.D., Accedunt Parallela S. Scripturæ Loca.
— from Whittaker & Co.'s List of Classical, Educational and Technical Works. July 1889 by Whittaker & Co.

likely enough be entirely lost
But," continued the dean, "before everything, let us agree to look upon his sermon in the right light, for the opinion of many will be formed upon ours, and if we now allow this young man to slip out of our hands he will, likely enough, be entirely lost for the good work; and I must say I have great hopes of him.
— from Garman and Worse: A Norwegian Novel by Alexander Lange Kielland


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