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metaphors a jargon if it consists
Yet a style wholly composed of such words is either a riddle or a jargon; a riddle, if it consists of metaphors; a jargon, if it consists of strange (or rare) words.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

my Aunt Jane if I can
I'm going to ask my Aunt Jane if I can't take him home with me to Thirty-fourth Street!"
— from The Wonderful Bed by Gertrude Knevels

mine and jam if I can
I want butter with mine, and jam, if I can get it.”
— from Mendel: A Story of Youth by Gilbert Cannan

march against Jerusalem it is commonly
From the circumstance that in it [Pg 95] the king of Asshur is represented as being about to march against Jerusalem, it is commonly inferred that it was uttered shortly before the destruction of the Assyrian host, and hence, belongs to the fourteenth year of Hezekiah.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

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