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smoked a Cuban cigar and it made
All I know about Cuba is, I once smoked a Cuban cigar and it made me ill.”
— from The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys by Richard Harding Davis

sensations are continually changing and it may
CHAPTER II An unexpected rencontre; and a desperate contest: Victory dearly bought Man is, or, which is the same thing, his sensations are, continually changing; and it may be truly affirmed that he is many different animals in the course of a day.
— from The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft

steal a Catholic child and its mother
And he hoped to obtain the priest's sympathy by saying: 'What a terrible thing it was that the police should allow a black Protestant to steal a Catholic child, and its mother a Catholic and all her people before her!'
— from The Lake by George Moore

should a certain contingency arise in my
I put these letters where I could find them should a certain contingency arise in my life, and where, failing that, they would be lost.
— from The Summit House Mystery; Or, The Earthly Purgatory by L. (Lily) Dougall

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