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so hyest out of Troye

For now, for thou so hyest out of Troye, Have I forgon thus hastily my Ioye!' This Troilus,
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

She handed one of them

She handed one of them to M. Gillenormand, who read: Le Baron Marius Pontmercy .
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

see her out of the

When her carriage or her saddlehorse was brought to the door, I went to the window and waited to see her out of the house; then I watched her get into her carriage or mount her horse and ride out of the yard.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

safe haven out of this

With a heart, then, inclined to believe what I have said to thee, attend, my son, to thy Cato here who would counsel thee and be thy polestar and guide to direct and pilot thee to a safe haven out of this stormy sea wherein thou art about to ingulf thyself; for offices and great trusts are nothing else but a mighty gulf of troubles.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

she hastened out of the

During the pathetic appeal with which it concludes, a stifled sob attracted our attention to Perdita, the cessation of the music recalled her to herself, she hastened out of the hall—I followed her.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

seen him once or twice

I have seen him once or twice."
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

saw her out of the

She knew what I was talking about, the hussy, and I saw her out of the corner of my eyes listening with all her ears, while she pretended to iron a blouse that she had been washing for me.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

speak here only of the

We shall speak here only of the honesty of the sort of women the courts have most to do with, and in this regard there is little to give us joy. Not to be honest, and to lie, are two different things; the latter is positive, the former negative, the dishonest person {341} does not tell the truth, the liar tells the untruth.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

suffer him out of the

She then proceeded to a recapitulation of his faults in an exacter order, and with more perfect memory, than one would have imagined her capable of; and it is probable would have rehearsed a complete catalogue had not our hero's patience failed him, so that with the utmost fury and violence he caught her by the hair and kicked her, as heartily as his chains would suffer him, out of the room.
— from The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding

say having once opened the

She must have known the weakness of her own position, and as I say, having once opened the matter to Edgar, she determined to stick to it, knowing that a boy taken thus on a sudden would be likely to believe her, whereas if she said that you were her son she would find you already prepared and probably have to confront me too.
— from The Dash for Khartoum: A Tale of the Nile Expedition by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

stretch himself out on the

He was just wondering whether it would be pleasant to stretch himself out on the wild thyme that scented the high place and go to sleep till breakfast, when the mounting sun caught one of the monastery windows, and Smith stared sleepily at the darting flashing light till it dazzled him.
— from The Angels of Mons: The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War by Arthur Machen

sent him off on the

'They made such speeches at his burying as it was the custom of heathen men to make, and sent him off on the way to Valhall.'
— from The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia by Craigie, William A. (William Alexander), Sir

standing high out of the

What a sight it must have been on that August day as these ships, flying the huge banners of Castile, standing high out of the water, with lofty “castles” forward and aft, gaudy with carving and color, the light rippling here from silken pennants and flashing there from shining cannon or huge 115 poop-lanterns, moved past the southern headlands of England, watched by half-raging, half-fearful crowds!
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

settled here out of the

I, were a hundred industrious families compactly settled here out of the redundant population of England!"
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

stretched himself out on the

Sitting Bull stretched himself out on the veranda and again fell asleep, and Whitey told Injun that the dog's coming probably was a good omen.
— from Injun and Whitey to the Rescue by William S. Hart

Scirocco had one of those

As Pistasch had ridden to Traunberg, where Rhoeden seldom accompanied him, the Countess Dey was in bed with a headache, and Scirocco had one of those fits of desperate melancholy which so often tormented him, and was wandering about the woods, Eugene had nothing to do in Iwanow.
— from Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Ossip Schubin

safe had one of the

I didn't require them, for I found that the little safe had one of the earliest and simplest forms of a lock.
— from Thieves' Wit: An Everyday Detective Story by Hulbert Footner

Send him out of the

“Send him out of the way,” whispered Mrs. Harcourt.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Moral Tales by Maria Edgeworth

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