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same year by a sequel entitled
Here we are concerned only with two youthful works of his [Pg 154] — Pigmalion's Image and some Satires in 1598, followed in the same year by a sequel, entitled The Scourge of Villainy .
— from A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury

suspected you before a second examination
When I suspected you before, a second examination convinced me of your integrity.
— from Living Too Fast; Or, The Confessions of a Bank Officer by Oliver Optic

shy young brothers and seemed eager
She noticed the Ripley pearls on Miss Dolly Ripley's scrawny little lean neck, and that charming Isabel Wallace danced a good deal with her own handsome, shy young brothers, and seemed eager that they should enjoy what was evidently their first Browning.
— from The Story of Julia Page by Kathleen Thompson Norris

selves you begin and set em
"Well, I show myself now; and if you object to young girls not showing their real selves, you begin and set 'em the example.
— from The Lost Cabin Mine by Frederick Niven

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