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said thought and did she saw

In everything he said, thought, and did, she saw something particularly noble and elevated.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

so tired and discouraged she scarcely

Then she started to school, but was so tired and discouraged she scarcely could walk.
— from A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

such thing as death she said

'There is no such thing as death,' she said.
— from The White Sister by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

so that a dark shadow still

Such has been the negligence of our national authors, that this narrative will have the appearance of a discovery: up to the present time Barcelona and the Principality had not attracted the scrutinizing notice of the political historian, so that a dark shadow still concealed the real principles (always unknown to the crowd) from which in all times, have sprung the virtues and the vices of nations.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

stay there and die so she

She could linger no longer, although she felt as if she would like to stay there and die, so she arose and went wearily after.
— from Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

subsequent to Andrew Daney s secret

A few days subsequent to Andrew Daney's secret scuttling of the motor-boat Brutus, Nan Brent was amazed to receive a visit from him.
— from Kindred of the Dust by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

so that as Dr Stout says

Yet inasmuch as the survival value of the dispositions themselves must have depended upon the success of the process as a whole, it is manifest that peculiar significance must not be attached to just the area occupied, which happens to be so susceptible of observation; other contributory factors must also receive attention, for the process is but an order of relationships in which the various units have each had their share in determining the nature and course of subsequent process, so that, as Dr Stout says, when they were modified, it was modified.
— from Territory in Bird Life by Henry Eliot Howard

says they are dead said Simon

“Brindle Bill says they are dead,” said Simon slowly.
— from Pen Pictures, of Eventful Scenes and Struggles of Life by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Craig

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