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mamma I know answered Lily and it
"Yes, mamma, I know," answered Lily, "and it serves me quite right; but it does make me feel very badly to know that all the other children can feel that the little orphans are having some good of their kindness, and they do not have one bit of mine."
— from Lily Norris' Enemy by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

mineral is known as lazulite and in
This mineral is known as lazulite and in composition is a silicate of soda and alumina with a small quantity of sodium sulphide.
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 3 [August 1902] Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

melody I knew and loved and if
It was a ditty of old Provence, a melody I knew and loved, and if aught had been wanting to heighten the enchantment that already ravished me, that soft melodious voice had done it.
— from Bardelys the Magnificent Being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Rafael Sabatini

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