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All this while, the strange man looked at nobody but me, and looked at me as if he were determined to have a shot at me at last, and bring me down.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
She replied— "I think I had a perfect right to speak on a subject which concerns me at least as much as you." "Clearly—you had a right to speak, but only to me.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot
Lord knows why, but I saw a definite connection between this sick crewman and yesterday's happenings, and the mystery of those events concerned me at least as much as the man's sickness.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne
I saw certain connection between the illness of one of the crew and the events of the day before; and this mystery interested me at least as much as the sick man.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
An' lastly, Jamie, for yoursel, May guardian angels tak a spell, An' steer you seven miles south o' hell: But first, before you see heaven's glory, May ye get mony a merry story, Mony a laugh, and mony a drink, And aye eneugh o' needfu' clink.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
I obeyed him; then he put the glass on the table, stood before me, and looked at me attentively.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë
I have sometimes, I confess, been a little annoyed with the familiarity of the Americans, Canadians as well as Yankees; but I must say that experience has taught me to blame myself at least as much as them.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
Man nears man, meets, and leaves again" —MATTHEW ARNOLD TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED WIFE NOTE.—This book was written in the year 1912 CONTENTS.
— from Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren
echoes my uncle, and gives me a look as much as to say that I am not to be thanked for it.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill
I knew at once what had happened to me, and leaned a moment against the planking with a sick, faint feeling, saying to myself, "I have it this time!"
— from The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman
I have, however, endeavoured to give, as the opportunity arose, such results of recent critical work on the relics of Celtic myth and legend as may at least serve to indicate to the reader the nature of the critical problems connected therewith.
— from Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
As I perceive more and more that I and my works, which as yet have scarcely begun to spread abroad, are not likely to prosper very much, I slowly familiarize myself with the thought of turning to account your friendly feeling towards me a little, and, much as I generally detest the seeking and making of opportunities, I proceed with perfect openness to rouse you up in my favour.
— from Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 by Franz Liszt
Patty's mother has cooked for me and looked after me all the time.
— from The Making of Mona by Mabel Quiller-Couch
Lady Byron (if the subject must be discussed) belongs to sentiment and morality (at least as much as Lord Byron); nor is she to be suffered, when compelled to speak, to raise her voice as in a desert, with no friendly voice to respond to her.
— from Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nor could I repress some audible expressions of encouragement; but the fair donçella , unconscious of having performed anything remarkable, gave me a look, as much as to say, in the language of a touching nautical ballad— "Go away young man—my company forsake."
— from Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise
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