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long enough I daresay you
"If it were a clear day, and your sight were long enough, I daresay you would see Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, and Sark.
— from Vixen, Volume II. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

length exclaimed I daresay ye
she at length exclaimed, "I daresay ye'll be just the sma' prentice laddie.
— from The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland by Hugh Miller

Lady Evans I desire you
"There!" cried Lady Evans, "I desire you will give your opinion of her, and I am sorry I cannot stay to hear it.
— from A Simple Story by Mrs. Inchbald

light Ere I desert you
'T is fate that brings you to my sight; May I be reft of heaven's light, Ere I desert you in your hapless plight.
— from The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika by Sudraka

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