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men as you attacked me all
" Then, as the life ebbed out of you, you answered, O knight Patroclus: "Hector, vaunt as you will, for Jove the son of Saturn and Apollo have vouchsafed you victory; it is they who have vanquished me so easily, and they who have stripped the armour from my shoulders; had twenty such men as you attacked me, all of them would have fallen before my spear.
— from The Iliad by Homer

me and you are making a
You love me, and you are making a useless bargain with your conscience.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

me and you are making a
You love me, and you are making a useless bargain with your conscience."
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

m All y are m All
All y are m All y are mAll y′ are m All y′ are m′ All m are y
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

m are y All m are
All m are yAll mare y All m′ are y′ pg050 CHAPTER III.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

me and you and mine and
O God, I fear thy justice will take hold On me, and you, and mine, and yours, for this!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Man and Yet a Man appeared
While Mrs. Harper was still prominently before the public appeared Albery A. Whitman, a Methodist minister, whose "Not a Man and Yet a Man" appeared in 1877.
— from The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States by Benjamin Griffith Brawley

Mobile and you ask me at
I am very thankful for your generous offers to procure to me the provisions and warriors necessary in order to retake the port of Mobile, and you ask me at the same time if we have given up Mobile to the Americans: to which I answer, for the present I cannot profit of your generous offer, not being at war with the Americans, who did not take Mobile by force, since they purchased it from the miserable officer, destitute of honor, who commanded there, and delivered it without authority.
— from Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. by George Cary Eggleston

merry as you are mad and
For once I'll be as merry as you are mad, and learn fashions.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13 by Robert Dodsley

men and young and middle aged
Thus, women are more liable to its attacks than men, and young and middle aged persons of both sexes than old ones.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

mine and you are more accustomed
"Your legs are longer than mine, and you are more accustomed to walking," said he, laughing.
— from The Green Flag, and Other Stories of War and Sport by Arthur Conan Doyle

many a youth and many a
80 Hard by, a Cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged Okes, Where Corydon and Thyrsis met, Are at their savory dinner set Of Hearbs, and other Country Messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses; And then in haste her Bowre she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the Sheaves; Or if the earlier season lead To the tann'd Haycock in the Mead, 90 Som times with secure delight The up-land Hamlets will invite, When the merry Bells ring round, And the jocond rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the Chequer'd shade; And young and old com forth to play On a Sunshine Holyday, Till the live-long day-light fail, Then to the Spicy Nut-brown Ale, 100 With stories told of many a feat, How Faery Mab the junkets eat, She was pincht, and pull'd she sed, And he by Friars Lanthorn led Tells how the drudging Goblin swet, To ern his Cream-bowle duly set, When in one night, ere glimps of morn, His shadowy Flale hath
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

markets as you advised me and
"I visit the markets as you advised me, and yesterday found one of the hucksters selling hazel-nuts.
— from The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

me and you and mine and
O God, I fear Thy justice will take hold On me, and you, and mine, and yours, for this!
— from The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare

means are you and Miss Austin
He means are you and Miss Austin lovers?”
— from The Mystery Girl by Carolyn Wells


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