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south or by by you
so I can tak the kee in side and haye fier works in the toume pipes and tobacker & A speaking trumpet and & bibel to Read & sum good songs What is a presedent answer A king bonne partey the grate has as much power as A king and ort to have & it is a massey he has for the good of mankind he has as much power as Any king for grat ways back there must be A head sum whare or the peopel is Lost Lik wild gees when thay Lous the gander two Leged want A head if fore Leged both & 2 Leged fouls the Name of presedent is to pleas the peopel at Large the sound souts best Now in the south give way to the North the North give way to the south or by & by you will brake what falers be wise on keep the Links to gether and if you cant A gree Consoalated to A kingly power for you must keep together at the wost hear it Labers ye les see there is so many men wants be the all offesers & Now sogers poor king Every day wants A bone sum more then others the king cant Live without the feald wee have had our turne grat good father Addoms [9] turne & turne About
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

stabbed or beaten but you
In dreams you sometimes fall from a height, or are stabbed, or beaten, but you never feel pain unless, perhaps, you really bruise yourself against the bedstead, then you feel pain and almost always wake up from it.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

slice of beef before you
"I do wish," said Bob lightly, "that you could give me a nice slice of beef before you go; I'm so hungry."
— from Queensland Cousins by Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

some other brand but your
Perhaps if you strongly protest, you can obtain some other brand, but your protest must be loud and insistent.
— from The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World by Robert O. Harland

story of Blue Beard you
“But, sir,” said Goldsmith, “when people live together who have something as to which they disagree, and which they want to shun, they will be in the situation mentioned in the story of Blue Beard: ‘you may look into all the chambers but one’; but we should have the greatest inclination to look into that chamber, to talk of that subject.”
— from Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography by Washington Irving

slice of bread before you
31 Curried Oyster Sandwiches Butter a slice of bread before you take it off the loaf; cut it about a half inch thick and remove the crusts.
— from Sandwiches by S. T. Rorer

shrieking Oh Betsy Betsy you
Kitty Thwaites ran toward the hotel shrieking, “Oh, Betsy, Betsy, you’ve killed him!”
— from The Revellers by Louis Tracy

sent out by Brigham Young
The colonizers sent out by Brigham Young were in three divisions.
— from Loafing Along Death Valley Trails: A Personal Narrative of People and Places by William Caruthers


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