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said he of what else should
“Of course,” said he; “of what else should I speak?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

small house on West Eleventh Street
It developed that a woman physician of Miss Putnam’s acquaintance had a small house on West Eleventh Street, the upper floors of which she let to women lodgers.
— from Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905 by Various

skill help or what else soever
since justification from the curse of the law before God, lieth only and wholly in God's imputing of Christ's righteousness to a man, and that too, while the man to whom it is imputed, is in himself wicked and ungodly, there is no room left for boasting before God, for that is the boasting intended; but rather an occasion given to shame and confusion of face, and to stop the mouth for ever, since justification comes to him in a way so far above him, so vastly without him, his skill, help, or what else soever.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

shake him off without even slackening
[Pg 70] to seize him, Pierre would shake him off without even slackening his pace.
— from Frank among the Rancheros by Harry Castlemon

some herds of wild elephants spread
Towards the end of 1897, some herds of wild elephants spread far and wide over the harvest fields in Toungoo district, Burma.
— from Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other Beasts by David Alec Wilson


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