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successful in your undertaking
Hináut untang magmalampúsun ka sa ímung tingúhà, I hope you will be successful in your undertaking.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

seem in your usual
'If you come to that, you don't seem in your usual spirits,' growled Wegg.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

said I your uncle
“Mademoiselle,” said I, “your uncle has told me to come and amuse myself with you.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

subject is you understood
Thus, in “Open the window,” the subject is “ you (understood).”
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

skin if you use
Dakù ang kalaínan nga mahímù sa ímung pánit ug mugámit kag Kamay, It will make a great difference for your skin if you use Camay.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

shew it you unsigned
Sir, said I, your goodness has given me a right to a very honourable one but as this is the first occasion of the kind, except that to my dear father and mother, I think I ought to shew it you unsigned, that I may not seem over-forward to take advantage of the honour you have done me.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

stolid imperfect yet unimpeachable
Altogether, she was held in great affection in that region, perhaps from her Tagalog name, or from the fact that she bore the characteristic impress of things in the country, representing something like a triumph over progress, a steamer that was not a steamer at all, an organism, stolid, imperfect yet unimpeachable, which, when it wished to pose as being rankly progressive, proudly contented itself with putting on a fresh coat of paint.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

society is yet unform
In the West, California, &c., "society" is yet unform'd, puerile, seemingly unconscious of anything above a driving business, or to liberally spend the money made by it, in the usual rounds and shows.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

seem inquisitive you understand
I do not wish to seem inquisitive, you understand—" "No, I believe I am through with borrowed coats—as with yours, for instance.
— from The Cords of Vanity: A Comedy of Shirking by James Branch Cabell

squander it yet upon
She would not squander it yet upon herself....
— from The Fortieth Door by Mary Hastings Bradley

she is your Uncle
"We must remember, after all, Nelly," he would say then, "that she is your Uncle Gerald's widow.
— from Mary Gray by Katharine Tynan

smoothly in your undertakings
To see carpenters using their planes, denotes that you will progress smoothly in your undertakings.
— from Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What's in a Dream A Scientific and Practical Exposition by Gustavus Hindman Miller

so inviting yet untouched
With a spring he lumbered up, taking his way over the single field which separated his house from the edge of the Grannoch water—where on the other side, above the glistening sickle-sweep of sand which looked so inviting, yet untouched under the pines by the morning sun, the hyacinths lay like a blue wreath of peat smoke in the hollows of the wood.
— from The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

she interrupted you use
"Yes, but——" "Well, then," she interrupted, "you use it, the first chance you get.
— from Her Ladyship's Elephant by David Dwight Wells

so if you undertake
“You will find him so, if you undertake to put onto him; mebbe he isn’t quite so old as you and mebbe he don’t smoke cigarettes and drink whisky, but I’ll bet this whole team that if either or both of you ever tackles him, you’ll think five minutes later that you’ve been run through a thrashing mill.”
— from The Campers Out; Or, The Right Path and the Wrong by Edward Sylvester Ellis

successful in your undertaking
"You seem to have been successful in your undertaking?"
— from Within The Enemy's Lines by Oliver Optic

sailed into Youghal upon
He sailed into Youghal upon the flood-tide, and Dungarvan then offered to surrender to Sir Thomas Fitzgerald.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell


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