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shut up lest it should
Jealous of every door that one sees shut up, lest it should be the plague; and about us two shops in three, if not more, generally shut up.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

sence unsettle Least I should
I have not closd mine eyes Save when my lids scowrd off their brine; alas, Dissolue my life, Let not my sence unsettle, Least I should drowne, or stab or hang my selfe.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

shut up last injunctions shouted
The young couple were shut up, last injunctions shouted at them.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

shows us later in September
The artist shows us later, in September, at Gravetye, the pale violet multitude of the Michaelmas daisies; another I great bunch, or bank, of which half masks and greatly beautifies the rather bare yellow cottage at Broadway.
— from Picture and Text 1893 by Henry James

serve up letters in solid
To serve up letters in solid slabs cut out of longer letters is distressing.
— from Res Judicatæ: Papers and Essays by Augustine Birrell

shut up lest it should
Jealous of every door that one sees shut up, lest it should be plague; and about us two shops in three, if not generally more, shut up.”
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

swept up like it should
Well, it's just not picked up and cleaned up and swept up like it should be.
— from Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

SVINBĀDAN UNATTENDED LIGHTSHIP IN SWEDISH
THE “SVINBĀDAN,” UNATTENDED LIGHTSHIP IN SWEDISH WATERS.
— from Lightships and Lighthouses by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

sence unsettle Least I should
[Pg 329] Sipt some water, I have not clos'd mine eyes Save when my lids scowrd off their bine; alas Dissolve my life, Let not my sence unsettle Least I should drown, or stab or hang my self.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10 by John Fletcher

stay until late in September
They had all three been staying at the White Mountains; they had planned to be at the Glen House through July and early August, and then go to the sea-shore to stay until late in September.
— from Harper's Young People, August 2, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

setting up Lectures in Scotland
Among contemporary ordinances of his also confirmed, over and above those in the main list of Eighty-two, were that for setting up Lectures in Scotland, that in favour of Glasgow University, and that for the better support of the Universities of Scotland—this last, however, limited to the Universities alone by the omission of what related to "the encouragement of public preachers" (Vol.
— from The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson


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