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personal regard your obedient ready
“I beg you to accept my wishes for your happiness and to believe me, with the highest and warmest personal regard, your obedient, ready and humble servant.
— from Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Mathew Joseph Holt

poor Rope Yarn or Ropey
Such a portrait gallery as Typee makes out of the Julia's crew, beginning with Chips and Bungs, the carpenter and cooper, the "Cods," or leaders of the forecastle, and descending until he arrives at poor Rope Yarn, or Ropey, as he was called, a stunted journeyman baker from Holborn, the most helpless and forlorn of all land-lubbers, the butt and drudge of the ship's company!
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

particulars respecting your ordinary riding
I think I have now entered into all particulars respecting your ordinary riding gear.
— from Riding for Ladies: With Hints on the Stable by O'Donoghue, Power, Mrs.

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