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Sunday and holiday in the year after
[Pg 470] And every Sunday and holiday in the year, after his mass, he was to turn him to the people, and exhort them to prayer for all the said persons, and to say “the salme De profundis , with a Paternoster and an Ave Maria , with special suffrages after, and funeral collect, as well for the quick as for the dead.
— from Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England by Edward Lewes Cutts

sung aloud Have I told you all
His countenance was flushed with wine, and as he reeled along, he sung aloud: "Have I told you all my flames, 'Mong the amorous Syrian dames?
— from Philothea: A Grecian Romance by Lydia Maria Child

Sanford as he identified the Young America
“There’s the ship!” exclaimed Sanford, as he identified the Young America, half a mile distant, leading the squadron into the harbor of Stockholm.
— from Up The Baltic; Or, Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark by Oliver Optic

slowly almost humbly I take you at
Then with one long look in her paling face he said, slowly, almost humbly: "I take you at your word.
— from Campaigning with Crook, and Stories of Army Life by Charles King

similar affairs have intervened that you are
Time is a great restorer, and so many similar affairs have intervened that you are probably forgotten.
— from The Key to Yesterday by Charles Neville Buck


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