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 see.
— from The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen Wilhelm Bergsöe and Bernhard Severin Ingemann by Various
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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