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later your convenience or necessity
Then you are an amateur, though later your convenience or necessity dictates a sale.
— from The Collectors Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Commandments by Frank Jewett Mather

Let you come on now
Let you come on now, I'm saying, to the lands of Iveragh and the Reeks of Cork, where you won't set down the width of your two feet and not be crushing fine flowers, and making sweet smells in the air.
— from The Well of the Saints: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

liquid yields crystals of nitrate
The residual liquid yields crystals of nitrate of copper on evaporation.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

line your clerk ought not
"If you think I took a line your clerk ought not to take, I will give up my post.
— from Kit Musgrave's Luck by Harold Bindloss

love you Cruchard or not
We all KISS you very tenderly, and we love you, Cruchard or not.
— from The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by George Sand

let you carry out no
"You may as well put that notion right out of your head," said Willie, "for we shan't let you carry out no such crazy scheme.
— from Flood Tide by Sara Ware Bassett

look you cousin of Norfolk
"Why, look you, cousin of Norfolk! '
— from The Deserter, and Other Stories: A Book of Two Wars by Harold Frederic

let yees come on now
bawls a supporter, beckoning authoritatively from the distance, "let yees come on now, the whole o' yee, the way we'd be before the car and it going up!"
— from Some Irish Yesterdays by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

letter you complain of not
Even in this last letter, you complain of not having been written to; from which it follows that you had not received a letter of mine written immediately after the funeral.
— from Rossa's Recollections, 1838 to 1898 Childhood, boyhood, manhood; customs, habits and manners of the Irish people; Erinach and Sassenach; Catholic and protestant; Englishman and Irishman; English religion; Irish plunder; social life and prison life; the Fenian movement; Travels in Ireland, England, Scotland and America by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa


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