We are advised that you yourself have been a traveler in our western districts; and it seemed to us likely that you might be possessed of information regarding matters there of which we get only more interested, more purely partisan, reports."
— from The Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of Compromise by Emerson Hough
The officer commanded the rest of the party to be ready to support them, and only saying to us, "Look to your safety, gentlemen," gave, in rapid succession, the word to the grenadiers—"Open
— from Rob Roy — Volume 02 by Walter Scott
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