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set you right since
"She has taken care to set you right since, anyhow, apparently."
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

send you round some
"I'll send you round some more to-morrow," lady Feng suggested; "I'm now going to look up your mother-in-law, and will then hurry back to give my report to our dowager lady."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

see you Rufus said
"Well, we've come to see you, Rufus," said Miss Cadwallader.
— from Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner

six young reformers stand
The same people who condemn the Empress Dowager for beheading the six young reformers stand ready to forgive Kuang Hsu for ordering the decapitation of Jung Lu, and the imprisonment of his foster-mother.
— from Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People by Isaac Taylor Headland

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