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suddenly call you to her or
You wanted, I know, to be always in reach, always free and available if she should suddenly call you to her or take refuge with you.
— from Autres Temps... 1916 by Edith Wharton

should call you the Hero of
“You seem to me a very nice, wonderfully pretty youth and clever at playing sports and feats; but that anyone should think of you as a good warrior or a brave man, or should call you the ‘Hero of Valour’ or the ‘Hammer of Destruction,’ that I cannot understand.
— from Cuchulain, the Hound of Ulster by Eleanor Hull

she could yield to her own
Helen wondered if she could yield to her own leaning to the primitive.
— from The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey


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