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please your reverences
To cover the MASK afresh, was more than the mask was worth——and to wear a mask which was bald, or which could be half seen through, was as bad as having no mask at all—— This is the reason, may it please your reverences, that in all our numerous family, for these four generations, we count no more than one archbishop, a Welch judge, some three or four aldermen, and a single mountebank——
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

put you right
I am sorry to see you have been poorly on the journey, but a few days' rest will put you right.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

provided you return
To recoil in battle, provided you return again to the attack, passes with them rather for policy than fear.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

prevented you RUTH
[Hastily] Yes, quite—and what prevented you? RUTH.
— from Justice by John Galsworthy

person you received
If you discover a defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a written explanation to the person you received the work from.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Perhaps you re
"Perhaps you're right.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

person you received
LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND – If you discover a defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a written explanation to the person you received the work from.
— from Salvation Syrup; Or, Light On Darkest England by G. W. (George William) Foote

Pontiff your reasons
A bishop, however, whose name the "Chronicles" do not mention, arose from his seat and replied to him thus— "If the vassalage which is demanded of Castile were not supported by the Supreme Pontiff, your reasons would be just and valid, and it would be right to sustain the refusal with the sword; but it is a question of obedience or non-obedience to the Vicar of Christ."
— from The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba

put you right
The other horse you bought—the winner of the race, I mean, Lauzanne—will also help put you right, I should say.”
— from Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser

page you read
And this road and pavement will have changed, and these impressive great buildings; other buildings will be here, buildings that are as yet more impalpable than this page you read, more formless and flimsy by far than anything that is reasoned here.
— from A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

physic your rankness
I will physic your rankness."
— from The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by William Shakespeare


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