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sort of cow kick you
If you find, when trotting, that your horse is going in an uncomfortable, one-sided manner, giving now and again a strange sort of cow kick, you may be confident that the saddle is hurting him.
— from Riding for Ladies: With Hints on the Stable by O'Donoghue, Power, Mrs.

so of course knowing your
"Perhaps so; of course, knowing your age, I can't judge so well how it would strike a stranger."
— from Elsie's Girlhood A Sequel to "Elsie Dinsmore" and "Elsie's Holidays at Roselands" by Martha Finley

said old Colman Killigrew you
"You speak strongly," said old Colman Killigrew; "you speak strongly, Father Anthony."
— from Mistress Nancy Molesworth: A Tale of Adventure by Joseph Hocking

Stigler of course keep your
Call on me if I can help you at any time, and, while you don't want to be spying on Stigler, of course, keep your eye open."
— from Dawson Black: Retail Merchant by Harold Whitehead

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