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scarcely a night in fifteen years
Two of them had missed scarcely a night in fifteen years.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

soul and now I fling you
“There,” he said bitterly, “for you I have sold myself body and soul, and now I fling you away!”
— from Twice Bought by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

skittish at nineteen I fear you
Those who are skittish at nineteen, I fear, you won't find much mended at twenty.
— from A Bold Stroke for a Husband: A Comedy in Five Acts by Hannah Cowley

sake and now I find you
I believed you had given up everything for your love’s sake; and now I find you’ve given up nothing.
— from Burning Sands by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall

sister and now I find you
But there is one thing that sticks me, Bruce; you led me to suppose you had but one sister, and now I find you have two.”
— from Mason of Bar X Ranch by Henry Holcomb Bennett

said again Nancy I forbid you
He said again: "Nancy, I forbid you to talk about these things.
— from The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

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