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she likes a year
A Vēlan woman who loses her husband may marry another of her caste, if she likes, a year after her husband’s death.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

So long as you
Old year, you must not go; So long as you have been with us, Such joy as you have seen with us, Old year, you shall not go.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

so long as you
Mr. Peters said, Sir, you are very good, and very kind; I love to see this complaisance to your sister, though she be in fault, so long as you can shew it with so much justice to the sweetest innocence and merit in the world.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

so long as you
And here, take my veil and put it round your chest; it is enchanted, and you can come to no harm so long as you wear it.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

so long as you
“My darling boy, anything you like, you could not have a better opportunity, my legs point to the window, so you have the fullest sight—look, feel, frig, fuck, or bugger, all is at your free disposition—only give me a pillow from the bed, as the floor is too hard for me to continue so long as you are likely to be.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

so long and yet
" "My goodness, you have meditated for so long and yet are unsure of the Lord's favor!"
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

St Louis at your
You are authorized to proceed to St. Louis at your convenience.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

so long as you
"Why," said I, "I know not if 'tis of consequence to your ladyship to discover who it is or who it isn't that rumpads you, so long as you be rumpadded; but if it be any convenience to you, why, set me down in your accounts as Galloping Dick of the Roads, and debit me with what you will," says I. "You would rob me?" said she, looking at me sharply, and, as I could see, controlling herself with an effort.
— from The High Toby Being further chapters in the life and fortunes of Dick Ryder, otherwise Galloping Dick, sometime gentleman of the road by H. B. Marriott (Henry Brereton Marriott) Watson

show like all yourself
This is a poor epitome of yours, Which by th' interpretation of full time May show like all yourself.
— from The Tragedy of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

so long as you
But so long as you yourself have none of King Olaf and myself, it is little matter what he thinks.
— from King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

so long as you
Still your faith forbids that you should abhor him. Love him with that christian charity which the law of Christ enjoins towards the reprobate; obey him in all that does not contravene your religious practices, acknowledge him as your lord and master in all things so long as you never let his tyrannical atheism enslave your conscience as a Catholic.
— from Leon Roch: A Romance, vol. 1 (of 2) by Benito Pérez Galdós

so long as you
True, these young bakers make their bread very gritty, but we must partake of it together so long as you are with us.
— from Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

sufficient light and yet
The result was his perfection of a lamp that would furnish the miners with sufficient light and yet preclude risk of exploding fire-damp.
— from Historic Inventions by Rupert Sargent Holland


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