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Shall I put him on now
Shall I put him on now?"
— from Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

sees its problems his own needs
The boy gets to know the Sunday school by talking about it, sees its problems, his own needs and the way to meet them.
— from The Boy and the Sunday School A Manual of Principle and Method for the Work of the Sunday School with Teen Age Boys by John L. Alexander

since it pairs him off nicely
That he always preferred Fielding to Richardson is satisfactory, since it pairs him off nicely with Dr. Johnson, whose preference was the other way, and so helps to keep an interesting question wide open.
— from Obiter Dicta: Second Series by Augustine Birrell

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