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now ye loved ones cry
He promises:—Ah yes, yes; yet once; and go now, ye loved ones; cry to God for yourselves and me!—It was a hard scene, but it is over.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

NEW YORK Library of Congress
The World Publishing Company CLEVELAND AND NEW YORK Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 56-9261 FIRST EDITION HC856 Copyright 1956 by Donald A. Wollheim.
— from One Against the Moon by Donald A. Wollheim

not your line of country
It is not your line of country, and it gets me what you are doing aboard this blue-nose outfit.
— from The Sailor by J. C. (John Collis) Snaith

New York located on Chatham
I stopped at one of the finest hotels in New York, located on Chatham Avenue, a broad and fashionable thoroughfare, lined with stately stores.”
— from Julius, the Street Boy; or, Out West by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

notable young lady of Camberwell
When, in fact, you were a notable young lady of Camberwell, and I —’ He paused to puff at his pipe.
— from In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing

not your lady of course
In earlier days, James, I used constantly to be meeting Miss Parkinson and her sister in serciety, and I dare say I made myself so pleasant and agreeable (you know what a way that is of mine), that Miss Ada (not your lady, of course) may have thought I meant something special by it, and there's no saying but what it might have come in time to our keeping company, only I happened just then to see Matilda, and—and I haven't been near the Parkinsons ever since.
— from The Tinted Venus: A Farcical Romance by F. Anstey

NEW YORK LAW OF CONTRACTS
NEW YORK LAW OF CONTRACTS.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1973 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

New York law of contracts
Laws, Statutes, etc. New York law of contracts.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1971 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

NEW YORK LAW OF CONTRACTS
Co. (PWH); 5Apr62; R294296. NEW YORK LAW OF CONTRACTS.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1962 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

nor yet linen or cotton
Underneath was then seen another shirt, not flannel, nor yet linen or cotton, but link-and-chain steel!
— from The Free Lances: A Romance of the Mexican Valley by Mayne Reid

New York law of contracts
New York law of contracts.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office


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