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of bird yellow
amore f. a kind of bird, yellow-hammer ?
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

or blind you
There are lots of blankets there, only be careful to keep out of the moon, or it may turn your head or blind you.”
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

other before you
Hampíla (ihampil) ang mga dáhun sa tabákù [ 297 ] únà pusta, Pile the tobacco leaves neatly one on top of the other before you pack them.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

of boxing your
I wish you’d been served so yourself, and you wouldn’t have found it no such joke; you are the impudentest fellow ever I see; and if I find you dare grin at me any more, I shall make no ceremony of boxing your ears.” Satisfied with the threat, the man hastily retired, and we drove on.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

or but yesterday
All things past are equally and perfectly at rest; and to this way of consideration of them are all one, whether they were before the beginning of the world, or but yesterday: the measuring of any duration by some motion depending not at all on the REAL co-existence of that thing to that motion, or any other periods of revolution, but the having a clear IDEA of the length of some periodical known motion, or other interval of duration, in my mind, and applying that to the duration of the thing I would measure. 29.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

of Bolivia your
I have seen doubloons before now in my voyagings; your doubloons of old Spain, your doubloons of Peru, your doubloons of Chili, your doubloons of Bolivia, your doubloons of Popayan; with plenty of gold moidores and pistoles, and joes, and half joes, and quarter joes.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

of both yet
The connexion of nature and freedom is suggested by, nay is involved in, the notion of natural adaptation; and although we can arrive at no knowledge of the supersensible substrate of both, yet such a common ground there must be.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

our best your
“Glad to do our best, your ex’len-lency!” came a confused shout from the ranks.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

or bounty you
If your lass Interpretation should abuse and call this Your lack of love or bounty, you were straited For a reply, at least if you make a care Of happy holding her.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

other but you
But, some impulse stirring in his heart, he moved back again to where I stood; murmuring, I heard him say: "In all the world she has none other but you.
— from Across the Salt Seas: A Romance of the War of Succession by John Bloundelle-Burton

other but you
Sure, I could never have undergone so much for any other but you.
— from Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith

out before you
By Mr. Lindsey: Q. Did you rap at the door or call at the door, and meet him outside, or did he come out before you arrived at the house?
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

on board yachts
R.P.C.Y.C., 50 , 51 Kennedy, John, R.N.Y.C., 74 Kennedy, R., R.N.Y.C., 74 Kennedy, W., R. Clyde Y.C., 79 Kent, Duchess of, patroness of R.W.Y.C., 1833, 42 Kerr, James, 77 'Kestrel,' schooner, 1835, 13 Kiel, yachting at, 309 'Kilmeny' (30 tons), 82 , 84 , 112 -114 King, Samuel, R.C.Y.C., 88 'King's Fisher,' Commodore Taylor's, drawing of, 151 ; lines, 153 , 154 Kingsale, Lord, C.W.C., 102 Kingston, Canada, 310 Kingstown (Dublin Co.), clubs at, 106 , 107 , 146 Kirby, David, boat-builder, Rye, New York, 253 -257 Kirkwall, Lord, R.Y.S., 1815, 10 'Kismet' (2½-rater), wins Fernie Cup of R.P.C.Y.C., 68 'Kitten,' Upper Thames Sailing Club, 183 'Kittiwake' (½-rater), wins the Champion Cup of R.P.C.Y.C. in 1891, 64 'La Coquille' (27 tons), 240 , 242 , 243 Ladies on board yachts, 139 'Lady Hermione,' Lord Dufferin's, 20 , 25 ; rig and dimensions, plan, sail and fittings, 26 -38 'Lady Louisa' (13 tons), R.T.Y.C., 1827, 169 , 327 'Lady St. Kilda,' 1835, Sir T. D. Acland's, 42 Lagé, Contre-Amiral Baron, President of Union des Yachts Français, 306 Laight, W. E., N.Y.Y.C., 242 'Lais' (40-rater), 350 ; in race from Dover to Boulogne, 360 ; record for the season, 397 Laity, Mr., R.P.C.Y.C., 64 Lake Lothing, 205 , 220 Lake Ontario, Canada, 309 , 310 Lambton, H., M.P., owner of 'Cygnet,' R.Y.T.C. 1851, 171 'Lamlash' (cutter), 77 Lamont, H., rear-commodore R. Clyde Y.C., 92 Lampson, G. C., owner of 'Miranda,' 68 'Lancashire Witch,' steam yacht, 1878, 17 'Lancet' (20 tons), 242 Lang, Oliver, designer of H.M.'s 'Elfin' and 'Victoria and Albert,' 7 Langtry, R., R.N.Y.C., 1824, 74 Lapthorn, Messrs., 128 , 149 , 274 , 398 Largs, 77 , 81 ; regatta, racing in 1892, 329 Lateeners, 205 , 315 'Latona' (yawl), wins race from Dover to Boulogne and back in 1880, 69 ; 119 Lavallin, Philip, Cork Water Club, 1760, 100 Lavand, Captain, 300 Lawley Corporation, Boston, builders of 'Jubilee,' 402 Leach, Sir George, on America Cup races of 1893, 416 et seq.
— from Yachting, Vol. 2 by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of

of bellows you
If you have a pair of bellows you may dispense with the blotting-paper as well as with the fanning.
— from A Treatise on Etching by Maxime Lalanne

old but you
You seem to be infirm and old, but you are young.
— from Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

other before you
“And now, having set my reasons towards one side and the other before you, and having warned you fully to act each man according to his conscience, I give my vote.
— from Jess by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

opener but you
Personally, I feel I should have to use a can opener, but you know how popular the uke is now, Janie.
— from Jane Allen, Center by Edith Bancroft

outside by yore
Here, you finish the water in yore canteen—I picked it up outside by yore cayuse.
— from Bar-20 Days by Clarence Edward Mulford


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