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saw you leave her early this

I saw you leave her early this morning over there in the woods.
— from Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Charles Goff Thomson

stuff young Lewis had ever turned

It was about the best stuff young Lewis had ever turned out—and a fool like Hart, whose taste is distinctly precious, hasn't the wit to appreciate good, clean, straightforward English.
— from The Making of a Soul by Kathlyn Rhodes

same year Lord Howe encountering twenty

In the same year, Lord Howe, encountering twenty-six ships [200] which the French by great exertions had sent to sea, manœuvred for three days, but on the “glorious first of June” bore down upon them and broke their line, captured six, and dispersed the rest, while 8000 men were killed or wounded on the French side against 1158 of the English.
— from Jane Austen and Her Times by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

some years lying hid even there

Thus, after the fall of his patron, Lord Shaftesbury, the philosopher had to take refuge in Holland, remaining there for some years, lying hid even there for some time to escape an extradition order for which the Government of James II. had applied.
— from History of Modern Philosophy by Alfred William Benn

send your Lordship herewith enclosed two

Madrid, the 24th of January, 1664, N.S. MY LORD, I send your Lordship herewith enclosed, two transcripts, the one of a project, at making of which I was never good; but this is of a peace, and therefore I wish I were; a peace between Castile and Portugal, hardly practicable upon any terms, as I do humbly conceive, much less upon these, proposed by an unknown author, with regard to either side; yet I have thought them not unworthy your Lordship's no
— from Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, Bt., Ambassador from Charles II to the Courts of Portugal and Madrid. by Ann Fanshawe

Some years later he entered the

Some years later he entered the Navy as an Assistant Surgeon, and made several voyages in the old sailing ships to various ports of the world.
— from Historic Fredericksburg: The Story of an Old Town by John T. (John Tackett) Goolrick

some years later he expressed the

He dutifully informed the Emperor T'ai Tsung of Ming that the Manchus had been driven from the throne, and some years later he expressed the deepest reverence for the ancestral cult.
— from The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

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