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lest you should stumble and

‘Give me your hand while you throw back the cover, lest you should stumble and fall in.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

like you she said as

“Oh, Marilla, you’d be excited, too, if you were going to meet a little girl you hoped to be your bosom friend and whose mother mightn’t like you,” she said as she hastened to get her hat.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

last year says Seryozhka angrily

“It was better last year,” says Seryozhka angrily.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

love you she said and

"You know I love you," she said, and flushed crimson.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

less your servant shall abide

CHAPTER XXIV—MISTAKES CLEARED UP 'Your beauty was the first that won the place, And scal'd the walls of my undaunted heart, Which, captive now, pines in a caitive case, Unkindly met with rigour for desert;— Yet not the less your servant shall abide, In spite of rude repulse or silent pride.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Look you sir such a

[Unveiling] Look you, sir, such a one I was this present.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

like you said Sybil all

“Ah! why do not others feel like you!” said Sybil, “all would not then be hopeless.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Look you sir such a

Look you, sir, such a one I was this present.
— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

lacerated you shall starve and

Your nerves shall be racked, your flesh lacerated; you shall starve, and die, and rot in this hole.’
— from Lady Eureka; or, The Mystery: A Prophecy of the Future. Volume 2 by Robert Folkestone Williams

love you she said and

"Darling, I love you," she said, "and I know you are good and true.
— from St. Cuthbert's by Robert E. (Robert Edward) Knowles

live ye sinners stay and

For the day cometh that the Lord shall utter his voice out of heaven; the heavens shall shake and the earth shall tremble, and the trump of God shall sound both long and loud, and shall say to the sleeping nations, Ye saints arise and live; ye sinners stay and sleep until I shall call again."
— from The Vitality of Mormonism: Brief Essays on Distinctive Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by James E. (James Edward) Talmage

live ye sinners stay and

A latter-day Scripture, describing the general resurrection of the just, incident to the approaching advent of Christ, embodies the Lord's declaration in these words: "The trump of God shall sound both long and loud, and shall say to the sleeping nations, Ye saints arise and live; ye sinners stay and sleep until I shall call again."
— from The Vitality of Mormonism: Brief Essays on Distinctive Doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by James E. (James Edward) Talmage

love you she said again

"I love you," she said again.
— from The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races by Oscar Micheaux

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