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shame us Davie dinnae shame
Dinnae shame us, Davie, dinnae shame us!
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

sur une douzaine de sites
sur une douzaine de sites.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

ship usually do dress so
They had been dressed as young ladies on board ship usually do dress, so that their widowhood had been forgotten; and, but for their babies, their wifehood might have been forgotten also.
— from The Bertrams by Anthony Trollope

successivement une des deux siennes
Déja Innocent avoit de même donné successivement une des deux siennes à l'un des deux autres.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

send up dinner directly said
“John, let me know when Dr. Campbell arrives; and tell them to send up dinner directly,” said the justice to his butler.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Moral Tales by Maria Edgeworth

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