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She came at daybreak and

She came at daybreak, and found Honore eating his soup, which he had made himself before going to work, and the sick-nurse asked him: “Well, is your mother dead?”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

so come and drum away

The house is empty half the day, so come and drum away as much as you like, and I shall be obliged to you.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

she could always do as

She felt she could always do as she wanted if she managed to avoid a battle with Authority and the authorised Powers.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

so contemptuous and derisive and

And yet, notwithstanding all, he was so superior to my solicitations, so contemptuous and derisive and disdainful of my beauty—which really, as I fancied, had some attractions—hear, O judges; for judges you shall be of the haughty virtue of Socrates—nothing more happened, but in the morning when I awoke (let all the gods and goddesses be my witnesses)
— from Symposium by Plato

story cited and denied a

The eye has especial influence, and the story cited and denied a hundred times, that in the dark, red wine and white wine, chicken and goose, {453} can not be distinguished, that the going out of a cigar is not noted, etc., is true.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

sat chatting after dinner a

H2 anchor THE WARDROBE As we sat chatting after dinner, a party of men, the conversation turned on women, for lack of something else.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

so crude a desire as

But two things stand in the way of your expressing yourself so naturally: on the one hand, your vanity, which will not acknowledge how hard you are hit; on the other hand, your conviction that you are a civilized and humane person, who could not possibly indulge so crude a desire as revenge.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

shut close and dumb and

I could see across the lock the three little front windows of our house, shut close and dumb; and I could hear the quick chanty from the quay, where the capstan turned:— O, I served my time on the Black Ball Line, Hurrah for the Black Ball Line!
— from The Hole in the Wall by Arthur Morrison

spaniels Cupid and Dido and

He was a great sportsman, and had two fine greyhounds, the one named Hector, the other Fly; and two excellent spaniels, Cupid and Dido, and an admirable setting dog, called Sancho.
— from The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars Containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man by Unknown

Saint Catherine as do all

They followed in the footsteps of Saint Catherine, as do all pilgrims to Siena, and climbed the hill to the Oratorio di Santa Caterina in Fontebranda, and read that inscription: “Here she stood and touched that precious vessel and gift
— from The Brownings, Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting

so circumstantial and descriptive an

It was impossible to refuse credence to so circumstantial and descriptive an account: and the curious became satisfied that this was the true secret of what are called my tours de force .
— from The Violin Some Account of That Leading Instrument and Its Most Eminent Professors, from Its Earliest Date to the Present Time; with Hints to Amateurs, Anecdotes, etc. by George Dubourg

silver crosses and devices and

His targe and horse-trapping displayed a profusion of silver crosses and devices, and he looked a stately and martial warrior, curvetting at the head of his troop of well-appointed lancers.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

smoking cigars at divans and

g up prize fights, breaking shop windows with penny pieces thrown from a Hackney coach, bilking a turnpike-man, and at other times painting-out in a very opposite colour his “ List of Tolls payable ,” Funking a cobbler, smoking cigars at divans and club-houses, fleecing each other in the Hells around Jermyn Street, drinking champagne at Charley Wright’s in the Haymarket, claret and brandy at Offley’s, and “early pearl” and dogsnose at the Coal Hole, wearing large whiskers, and false noses and moustachios, exchanging blackguard baninage with women of the town in and about Covent Garden, the Haymarket, and Piccadilly—“ Dem’ee that’s yer sort!—Keep it up—keep it up! ” Blown.
— from The True History of Tom & Jerry or, The Day and Night Scenes, of Life in London from the Start to the Finish! by W. T. (William Thomas) Moncrieff

study club a Do as

2. Explain (as if to a boy or girl younger than you, who asks, "What is it for?") the purpose and value of the following:— A debating society; a literary club; a nature study club; a "Do as you would be done by" association; amateur theatricals; athletic contests; an aquarium; zoological gardens; city parks; public libraries; foreign travel; picture galleries.
— from Elementary Composition by George R. (George Rice) Carpenter

She could and did as

She could, and did; as was evinced by her starting in the saddle—by her look of angry surprise directed upon Diaz.
— from The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas by Mayne Reid

slowly cooking as dry as

Salt, 1 teaspoonful. Put the peas to cook in boiling water; boil until tender, then simmer slowly, cooking as dry as possible without scorching.
— from Substitutes for Flesh Foods: Vegetarian Cook Book by Edwin Giles Fulton

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