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to a girl at my early time
I have the business of 3 plantations to transact, w ch requires much writing and more business and fatigue of other sorts than you can imagine, but lest you should imagine it too burthensome to a girl at my early time of life, give mee leave to assure you I think myself happy that I can be useful to so good a father.
— from Ten Girls from History by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

They all gathered around me eager to
They all gathered around me, eager to thank me for the unexpected pleasure.
— from In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone

that Alice gives a musical entertainment to
“What! not heard yet that Alice gives a musical entertainment to-night?
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 6, December 1849 by Various

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