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Mobile in case Kirby Smith
I had, therefore, asked to have an expedition ready to move from New Orleans against Mobile in case Kirby Smith should get across.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

me I cannot keep silence
My heart is in storm upon me, I cannot keep silence!
— from Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by George Adam Smith

myself I could keep silent
For myself I could keep silent, but for Sally I began to feel a hot clamoring outburst swelling in my throat.
— from The Rustlers of Pecos County by Zane Grey

minute I could kill somebody
I'm so swearing mad this minute I could kill somebody,—in other words, that foul fiend of a James Van Horn—smooth-tongued hypocrite that he is!"
— from Mrs. Red Pepper by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

may imagine Colonel Kingsward she
You may imagine, Colonel Kingsward,” she added, steadfastly regarding him.
— from The Sorceress (complete) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

me I cannot keep silence
My heart is in storm upon me, I cannot keep silence.
— from Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by George Adam Smith

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