"matily" hidden in books

mother and though I love you

All I desire is, to return to my poor father and mother: and though I love you all, I won't stay.—O well-a-day, well-a-day!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

me always that I love you

You tell me always that I love you--have always loved you--will never love any one else; and perhaps you are right.
— from The Potter's Thumb by Flora Annie Webster Steel

me as though I lived years

How long I remained there in the darkness I do not know, but it seemed to me as though I lived years in a few minutes.
— from The Passion for Life by Joseph Hocking

murmur against them I love you

I do not woo you, then, by fashioning Vext similes of you and Guenevere, And durst not come with agile lips that bring The sugared periods of a sonneteer, And bring no more—but just with lips that cling To yours, and murmur against them, 'I love you, dear!'" For Richard had resolved that Branwen should believe him.
— from Chivalry by James Branch Cabell

master and though I love you

Therefore I looked not at you when we were burying our master, and though I love you and in my heart look ever on your face, yet to-day my eyes were turned from you and I saw you not.
— from Marzio's Crucifix, and Zoroaster by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

months ago that I loved you

I told you nearly two months ago that I loved you.
— from If Sinners Entice Thee by William Le Queux

Many a time in later years

Many a time in later years he was still looking for the day, when Italy would be united and free, and, his political task accomplished, he could give himself to the literary schemes he still cherished,—a history of religious ideas, a popular history of Italy, and the editing of a series of the great dramas of the world.
— from The Life of Mazzini by Bolton King

Maria and truly I love you

I do not touch drink, Maria, and truly I love you ...
— from Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country by Louis Hémon

must admit that I like you

"So far as I can, certainly," Anna replied, "but I must admit that I, like you, find Mr. Norgate a little incomprehensible."
— from The Double Traitor by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

me again till I lofe you

You no can catch me again till I lofe you; not de once till I lofe you, señor.
— from Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West by Randall Parrish

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