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There are three of us and you
There are three of us and you gave five. 2 be the leftover when s.t. is divided.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There are ten of us as you
There are ten of us, as you see.
— from The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann by Various

trowed and the other untrowed as Ye
The hinge time-taking trowed, and the other untrowed, as ‘Ye ask (I trow), that ye may receive (I trow not that ye will).’
— from An Outline of English Speech-craft by William Barnes


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