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mamma and try to enjoy yourself
"Yes, do go, mamma, and try to enjoy yourself.
— from Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley

musical affairs throughout the eight years
At the Boys' High School and at New York University he was leader of musical affairs throughout the eight years spent in those schools.
— from Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists by James Francis Cooke

might attend to them Elisabeth you
You might attend to them, Elisabeth; you are the sort of girl who would enjoy attending to doubts."
— from The Farringdons by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

might apply to the earlier years
The description might apply to the earlier years of the American settlement, but certainly the later years are filled with discoveries in actual life as romantic as they are unexpected.
— from Twenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams

mistakes as to the exact year
When in after years scribes drew up lists of the dates of a reign, they may well have made mistakes as to the exact year in which an event took place and have also credited a king with too long a reign, by counting as separate years two dates which were really the alternatives for one and the same year.
— from Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

more are taken than elsewhere you
If you will only remember to send for hunters from Cibyra, and also send letters to Pamphylia (for there, I understand, more are taken than elsewhere), you will succeed.
— from Roman life in the days of Cicero by Alfred John Church

many a time to enable you
“I have lifted your head many a time to enable you to drink when you could not lift it yourself.”
— from The Hot Swamp by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

married and through the ensuing years
Hal and Mary were truly married, and through the ensuing years their lives ran on together merged as one.
— from The Harvest of Years by Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell

material adapted to the earlier years
Types of Bible material adapted to the earlier years, therefore, still can be used to advantage.
— from How to Teach Religion Principles and Methods by George Herbert Betts


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