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shove me out of the hospital
Same with the doctors: used to shove me out of the hospital before I could hardly stand on my legs, and nothing to pay.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

salt meat out of the harness
Here you are in your house, and me still picking my salt meat out of the harness cask.' “'Tut, you will find that I have not forgotten old times,' cried Mr. Trevor, and, walking towards the sailor, he said something in a low voice.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

should move out of the harbour
But when they came to the south, to More, they met Skopte the earl's brother-in-law, with a well-manned ship; and as they rowed towards the fleet, Skopte called out that Thorleif should move out of the harbour to make room for him, and should go to the roadstead.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

slinging machine out on the holm
He erected a stone-slinging machine out on the holm, and had iron chains and wooden booms laid across over the passage from the king's house to Nordnes, and to the Monks bridge.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

seeing me out of the house
He would begin by fixing upon me an exceedingly severe stare, keeping it up for several minutes at a time, particularly on meeting me or seeing me out of the house.
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

sundry movements of our troops hither
While there were divers and sundry movements of our troops hither and thither, and much sacrifice of life, after General Lawton’s Zapote River campaign in June, no substantial progress was made in conquering and occupying the Islands until the fall following the Zapote River campaign above mentioned, when the twenty-five regiments of volunteers were organized and sent out.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

so much out on the hull
But," he added, "I guess, the way the thing stands now, I ain't so much out on the hull."
— from David Harum A Story of American Life by Edward Noyes Westcott

Shall make of our two hearts
298 Our Lord, when he our love so true hath known, Shall make of our two hearts one heart alone; One heart shall make of our two hearts, to rest In heaven amid the splendours of the blest.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds

she moved out of the house
Does that refresh your recollection as to sequence that prior to her sale of the house she moved out of the house and over to Sherwood Drive and the placing of you boys in the Bethlehem orphanage school was all part of the picture?
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

some musty old operetta that had
“Both the sentimental words as well as the melody were taken from some musty old operetta that had perhaps been performed in the town, and had become a pleasant recollection to both the young people.
— from The Duel by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

secret meetings out of the house
I am afraid there had been secret meetings out of the house; girls and young men will do these things now-a-days.
— from At the Sign of the Silver Flagon by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

should mount one of the horses
Some one proposed that he should mount one of the horses and ride round the yard, which he seemed very willing to do—such is the power of brown stout!
— from The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: An Entertaining History (Illustrated with over Fifty Quaint Cuts) by John Bickerdyke

show me out of the house
At least he grinned in a very peculiar manner as he took the note, while Mr. Timm put back the package with an air of perfect indifference, and tilting his hat on his head, sang: "I am the last of guests to-night, Come show me out of the house!
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

same moment one of the henchmen
We thanked him for his solicitude and at the same moment one of the henchmen drew him aside and spoke in a low voice.
— from The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck

She marched out of the house
"What do they matter to me!" She marched out of the house behind the aunts with her head in the air, very conscious of a hole in one of her thin black gloves.
— from The Captives by Hugh Walpole


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