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suppose you needed to have
I didn't suppose you needed to have them pointed out.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

subscribe your names That his
Your oaths are pass'd; and now subscribe your names, That his own hand may strike his honour down That violates the smallest branch herein.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Sign your name there he
"Sign your name there," he said, pointing to the place.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

see your neighbour the Hexagon
For example, I am ascending; now I can see your neighbour the Hexagon and his family in their several apartments; now I see the inside of the Theatre, ten doors off, from which the audience is only just departing; and on the other side a Circle in his study, sitting at his books.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Should you not then he
"Should you not, then," he continued, "be afraid to say that ten is more than eight by two, and for this cause exceeds it, and not by number, and on account of number?
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

stranger yet nearer to him
At the moment the door opened and the stranger came in, Pierre felt a sense of awe and veneration such as he had experienced in his boyhood at confession; he felt himself in the presence of one socially a complete stranger, yet nearer to him through the brotherhood of man.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

subscribe your names That his
Your oathes are past, and now subscribe your names: That his owne hand may strike his honour downe, That violates the smallest branch heerein: If you are arm'd to doe, as sworne to do, Subscribe to your deepe oathes, and keepe it to Longauill.
— from Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare

see you not tis his
“Is he afraid we shall steal his chest, or his picture, that no soul in all Rome is weak enough to buy?” “Nay, sweet hostess; see you not 'tis his poverty he would screen from view?”
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

said Ye now therefore have
As he said, 'Ye now therefore have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

Scotland Yard Norgate told him
"I have been to Hebblethwaite, and I have been to Scotland Yard," Norgate told him firmly, "and all that I have got for my pains has been a snub.
— from The Double Traitor by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

suggested your name to him
I suggested your name to him, and showed him some of the articles you had written.
— from Hyacinth by George A. Birmingham

Say you now to Hezekiah
18:19 Rabshakeh said to them, Say you now to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this in which you trust?
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous


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