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part em now they are dead
Ay, part 'em now they are dead.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

part em now they are dead
I, part 'em now they are dead.
— from The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Christopher Marlowe

political economy necessary to a deputy
He had some education, however, for he had learned, and was learning every day, by much mental effort, a great deal that would be useful to him to know later: history, studying dates unweariedly, but mistaking the lesson to be learned from facts and the elementary notions of political economy necessary to a deputy, the A B C of sociology for the use of the ruling classes.
— from Strong as Death by Guy de Maupassant

patience exhausted now turned a deaf
The voice of Mr. Shelley, however, was heard above the din still calling for the enforcement of the rule; to which the Speaker, his patience exhausted, now turned a deaf ear.
— from Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson


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