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reach you on time

You may spend as much time as you like or don’t like, wondering why your express letter did not reach you on time; you do it at your own risk and expense.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

red you ought to

“In the entire political world, of which you are one of the leaders.” “They say that it is quite fair, and that sowing so much red, you ought to reap a little blue.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

repent ye of the

“What will ye do, Sir knight?” cried out the lady; “will ye take away my hound from me by force?” “Yea, lady,” said Sir Tor; “for so I must, having the king’s command; and I have followed it from King Arthur’s court, at Camelot, to this place.” “Well” said the lady, “ye will not go far before ye be ill handled, and will repent ye of the quest.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

run you over to

“If I thought you were a bomb thrower I'd run you over to the Newark jail.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

rest you ought to

Sir Marhaus the king’s son of Ireland talks like all the rest; you ought to give him a brogue, or at least a characteristic expletive; by this means one would recognize him as soon as he spoke, without his ever being named.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

reminded you of that

" "What reminded you of that, Laura?" " She reminded me.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

reached Yokohama on the

Ibara and his companions reached Yokohama on the 10th October, and obtained an interview the same day with Sir Rutherford Alcock and Mr. Pruyn, the United States minister.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

romantic youngster of twelve

Imagine how a romantic youngster of twelve would delight in the Count of Monte Cristo !
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

remind you of the

I have only wanted to remind you of the trick you long ago played upon me, to teach you that in this world of ours we must be kind and courteous to others, if we want to find kindness and courtesy in our own days of trouble.”
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

remind you of things

"I am loath to remind you of things so unpleasant; "But don't you perceive, dear, the Church have found out "That you're one of the people called Ex's , at present?"
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

Reconsider your opinion therefore

Reconsider your opinion therefore, Sancho, and when you are governor take to hunting, and you will find the good of it.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

remind you of that

We also remind you of that day on which we did the most glorious deeds, by your fathers' sides, we who now on this are like to suffer the most dreadful fate.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

rights you ought to

'Well, by good rights you ought to go without your breakfast for doing such a thing behind my back: but I don't know as there's any great harm done, only another time you ask my permission, do you hear?'
— from A Thin Ghost and Others by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

received your other two

[45] I ought certainly to have acknowledged before now the receipt of your letter and the accompanying parcel; but it is not the case that I have in the meantime received two other letters from you; if so, I should certainly have remembered to answer your first as I now do, having received your other two letters on the last post-day.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Otto Jahn

remind you of the

“Yes Lovieta, just think, didn’t his smile at home remind you of the rose blossoms that look out from the old grated window of the claustro San Jaun; which seemed for all the world as though they wished to come out into the sunlight, but couldn’t, because they wouldn’t confess it was sinful?
— from The Manatitlans or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A. by R. Elton Smile

received yours of the

I had duly received yours of the 20th, and ought to have answered it, but truly had nothing to say.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

rid yourself of these

You cannot rid yourself of these nervous sea-farers.
— from The Fleets Behind the Fleet The Work of the Merchant Seamen and Fishermen in the War by W. MacNeile (William MacNeile) Dixon

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