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soule I long to see
Now, as I have a soule, I long to see'em.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

she is longing to see
"My poor old grandmother!" sighed Gerda; "she is longing to see me, and grieving for me as she did for little Kay; but I shall soon go home now, and take little Kay with me.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

statues in London to supper
A man had better have all the statues in London to supper with him, ugly as they are, than be brought to the bar of the Nonconformist Conscience by Donna Elvira.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

specialized in language translation software
In 1998, he was an Internet Marketing Consultant for Globalink, a company specialized in language translation software and services.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

saw it lying there she
When she saw it lying there, she stamped her heel upon it, striving to crush it.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

should indeed like to see
That is a man I should indeed like to see.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

said it liked the salt
The little thing would not eat, but it sucked at a lozenge greedily, and said it liked the salt taste.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

since I last threw some
But, madam," he added, turning to Mrs Herbert, "you'll be for walking in and resting yourself, and Mrs Bridget will attend upon you; she won't let me put foot within doors, if she can help it, since I last threw some tobacco on her new gown, which was more loss to me than to her, seeing 'twas all I had, and there was nobody to send to get some more."
— from Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Missing Sewell

settlement in Louisiana the southern
Note the devotion of Evangeline as shown in her wanderings in search of Gabriel in the United States: The visit of Evangeline to the Acadian settlement in Louisiana, the southern home of Basil; Evangeline and Basil follow Gabriel to the West; Evangeline as a Sister of Mercy in Philadelphia; Gabriel found dying; The concluding stanza of the poem.
— from Elson Grammar School Literature v4 by William H. (William Harris) Elson

since I like the System
Just Now Don't Care Whether it Be Voted up or down Douglas's New Sedition Law Early Information on Army Defection in South Estimated as Mere Brutes—as Rightful Property Explanations Explanatory of Explanations Explained Familiarize Yourselves with the Chains of Bondage Farewell Address at Springfield, Illinois, First Inaugural Address First Suggestion of Offer of Presidency First Written Notice of Grant Folly of Being the Beginners of a War Form of Reply Prepared by Mr. Lincoln Further Reprimand of McClellan General Idea of this War Germans and Foreigners Give No Denial and No Explanation Government Will Not Assail You Gradual and Not Sudden Emancipation Is Better for All Gradual and Steady Debauching of Public Opinion Greatest Good to the Greatest Number Groping for Some Middle Ground Between the Right and the Wrong Gur-reat Pur-rinciple Homestead Law Horace Greeley Horse Chestnut to Be a Chestnut Horse I Authorize No Bargains and Will Be Bound by None I Have Not Been to School since I like the System Which Lets a Man Quit When He Wants to I must Say I Do Not Think Myself Fit for the Presidency I Shall Go to the Wall for Bread and Meat
— from Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln

sooner I leave the sooner
The sooner I leave the sooner I’ll be back, thee knows.”
— from Within the Capes by Howard Pyle

Stranger I laugh to scorn
When he read in the Cyclops of Euripides, "Stranger, I laugh to scorn Zeus's thunderbolts," he grew for a moment thoughtful.
— from The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett

swell Is like the sea
I grant that Music's swell Is like the sea; they may be thither hurled By storms that thunder and compel; Or, like those voyagers in the land of streams, Glide through its languid air, its languid wave, To learn that Here and There are but two dreams, That end in Nothing and the Grave!
— from Poems by Elizabeth Stoddard


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