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perfect health yet somehow outside
He came home for a while, then went to Germany; always the same good-looking, carefully-dressed, attractive young man, in perfect health, yet somehow outside of everything.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Pray have you seen our
Accordingly, on Sunday, when everybody has roast meat for dinner, all the cooks were to be seen in the streets, ‘Pray have you seen our Chloe?’ asks one.
— from England in the Days of Old by William Andrews

pause have you spoken of
"My girl," said the inspector after a pause, "have you spoken of this to any one else?"
— from The Rainbow Feather by Fergus Hume

Pray have you seen one
"Pray have you seen one?"
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

Praise him you servants of
Praise him, you servants of Yahweh, 135:2 you who stand in the house of Yahweh, in the courts of our God's house.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

Phillis hear you straight or
But tell me, missy, did ole Phillis hear you straight, or am she so warped troughout, dat she hot get de right comprehensions?"
— from Natalie Or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds by Ferna Vale

paid his yearly share of
In some places, at Oswestry, for example, chantry priests were supported by the devotion of servants or husbandmen, each of whom paid his yearly share of the endowment.
— from The Historical Growth of the English Parish Church by A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) Thompson

picture have you sketched of
What a picture have you sketched of our fire-side!
— from The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay by Mary Wollstonecraft

pleasure how ye shall order
So it may stonde w i t h yo ur pleasure, that ye did repayre hither to morowe assone as ye conuenyently may for to speke with the Duke of Norff olk by whom ye shall knowe the king his pleasure how ye shall order yo ur self in the parliament house Assuring you that yo ur Frend es wolde haue you to tary w
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman


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