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slave of yourself long enough
You have made a slave of yourself long enough; give him one lesson, and then there will be an end of it.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

slave of yourself long enough
You have made a slave of yourself long enough.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

sure of your liking each
I am sure of your liking each other.
— from Yesterdays with Authors by James Thomas Fields

Shame on you lads exclaimed
"Shame on you, lads!" exclaimed Mr. McKay reproachfully.
— from The Nameless Island: A Story of Some Modern Robinson Crusoes by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Sick of yours like enough
Sick of yours, like enough.
— from Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Robert Browning

some of you letting every
There are some of you letting every wind bring the thistledown of vanities, and scatter them all across your hearts, that they may spring up prickly, and gifted with a fatal power of self-multiplication.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

suppose of your late experience
"No. You are getting morbid on the subject—the result, I suppose, of your late experience of man's injustice.
— from The Pagan's Cup by Fergus Hume

some of your letters excites
But the cutting tone of some of your letters excites me to answer more or less in a cutting tone on my side, and I have given way to this temptation.
— from Life of Father Ignatius of St. Paul, Passionist (The Hon. & Rev. George Spencer). by Pius a Sp. Sancto (Pius a Spiritu Sancto)

spite of your loose ends
“In spite of your loose ends you were—what do you call it?
— from The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House by Hildegard G. Frey

story of your last expedition
Why, look at what you've been telling me—the story of your last expedition!
— from The Second Fiddle by Phyllis Bottome

shanty on your left eye
Judgin' from that shanty on your left eye, at least one of 'em quit under protest.
— from Captain Scraggs; Or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne


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