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Stand up recover yourself and

Stand up, recover yourself, and answer me to what I shall ask thee: speak truly, and thou shalt have thy life.
— from Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey

she utters rivets your attention

The first sentence she utters rivets your attention; and, almost unconsciously, your sympathies are excited, and you are carried onward by the reasonings and the eloquence of this disciple of the Gardens.
— from A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America by S. A. (Simon Ansley) Ferrall

severe undoubtedly releases you as

The change in your position, which I acknowledge to be most severe, undoubtedly releases you, as it would have released her,—had she been bound and chose to accept such release.
— from Ralph the Heir by Anthony Trollope

still unsolved requires your aid

You will be happier here, and a great problem still unsolved requires your aid.
— from Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Ida Glenwood

some unexplained reason you at

Love music, and for some unexplained reason you at once have a profound scorn for all such as do not.
— from The Champagne Standard by Lane, John, Mrs.

showed up right you and

You’ll be shown up for what you are, a low-down, sneaking thief that would steal the pennies from a blind man; you’ll be showed up right, you and your sure-thing contract, and yo
— from Wunpost by Dane Coolidge

Spain until recent years and

Belonging, of course, to a much later date is the other portrait of Charles at the Battle of Mühlburg, perhaps even less a monument of Titian's skill than an enduring record of the terrible craze for repainting that beset Spain until recent years, and is not unknown to-day, though public opinion has had some effect even in Madrid.
— from Titian by S. L. (Samuel Levy) Bensusan

so universally received yet among

Notwithstanding this notion so universally received, yet among the Grecians themselves the term κοινος was an antient title of eminence.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Jacob Bryant

suspected until recent years and

Alaska’s wealth in gold was, however, not suspected until recent years and not demonstrated until the summer of 1896, when the now famous treasure ship arrived in San Francisco having on board over $600,000 in gold, the property of 50 prospectors who had washed it out of the bars of the creeks emptying into the Yukon river.
— from The Story of Our Flag, Colonial and National With Historical Sketch of the Quakeress Betsy Ross by Addie Guthrie Weaver

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