"lumhs" hidden in books

let us make haste sir

But let us make haste, sir; with the enemies you have to do with there is no time to be lost.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

left upon my hands save

My old friend, Mr. W——, who was a new comer, became the principal purchaser, and when Christmas arrived I had not one article left upon my hands save the bedding, which it was necessary to take with us.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Let us make haste she

Let us make haste, she will recognize me.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

let us make haste slowly

Let us eat with meditation; let us make haste slowly.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

laying upon me his solemn

But Hiwilani persisted in doing the talking for him, and in laying upon me his solemn injunction that I must go with Ahuna to the burial-place and bring back the bones desired by my mother.
— from On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales by Jack London

let us make him supply

‘So long as he insists on coming, let us make him supply the paternal element,’ suggested Rhoda.
— from Marm Lisa by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

left upon Mr H Stanwell

The next day cards were left upon Mr. H. Stanwell and his wife, and it was universally admitted that they formed quite a congenial addition to Mailing-ham Society.
— from The Lighter Side of English Life by Frank Frankfort Moore

Let us make haste said

"Let us make haste," said the princess.
— from The War of Women, Volume 2 by Alexandre Dumas

Let us make haste sister

Let us make haste, sister, and get into covert; this music will raise the house upon us immediately.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by John Dryden

less unprotected manoir had seen

She, riding on the captured little mule and enveloped in costly furs--as usual, part of a spoil of a successful foray made by the Camisards on a more or less unprotected manoir --had seen him as the large body of Cavalier's followers had rounded a point in the mountain pass, and, springing from the animal's back, had thrown herself into his outstretched arms, unheeding those who came behind her and the Cévenole chief, thinking of naught at the moment but that he was safe and with her again, deeming all else insignificant beside that one supreme mercy vouchsafed by God.
— from The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious Persecution by John Bloundelle-Burton

let us make haste said

"Let us make haste, let us make haste," said Marcel, "we have the fifteen francs required.
— from Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Henri Murger

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