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throw away the ash rod you
Be advised: throw away the ash rod you carry, and take the hazel as your staff.
— from French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France by Marie, de France, active 12th century

to attend to any request you
I assure you it will be equally my duty and my pleasure to attend to any request you may have to make.
— from Angels of the Battlefield A History of the Labors of the Catholic Sisterhoods in the Late Civil War by George Barton

then and the at round you
Now then, 'and the 'at round, you'll 'ave to mike it thirteenpence before 'e's goin' to begin!"
— from Under One Flag by Richard Marsh

to appear therein as rendering you
But since, illustrious Sir, it is clearer than light that you are yourself, so to speak, an asylum of all the noble Arts, it has been my pleasure, out of a singular love I bear towards you, to dedicate to you this book; not because I desire to appear therein as rendering you any great service, but because thereby you may understand how engaged my mind is to you; and since by my work I can confer on you but little favour, at least by the exhibition of a ready mind I may repay the benefits you shower upon me.
— from Of the Just Shaping of Letters by Albrecht Dürer

talk about that again Richard you
"Oh!--we must never talk about that again, Richard; you saw me in the evilest guise I ever wore, and that is saying much."
— from The Cavalier by George Washington Cable

troops AAA Therefore as regards yourself
"Copy of number 140 from Admiralty received AAA I had already communicated outline of our plan to Lord Kitchener and am pushing on preparations as fast as possible AAA War Office still seems to cherish hope that you may break through without landing troops AAA Therefore, as regards yourself I think wisest procedure will be to push on systematically though not recklessly in attack on Forts AAA
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 1 by Ian Hamilton

themselves and then Aglais remarked You
They said they would take care not to allude to the subject at all, except among themselves, and then Aglais remarked, "You speak in sorrow of the youth whom you nursed.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

Toussaint after the autumnal rains you
There, towards Toussaint, after the autumnal rains, you may find an abundance of the mushrooms or "toadstools" that affect the conifers; especially the delicious Lactaris, which turns green if the points are rubbed and drips blood if broken.
— from Social Life in the Insect World by Jean-Henri Fabre


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