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that could scarcely have

"Her cutlets a la Maintenon made mutton seem more than mutton; a sublimated meat that could scarcely have grown upon any mundane sheep," he murmured sentimentally, "and Mrs. Maloney's chops are apt to be tough; but such is life—what does it matter?"
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

the crowd should have

Such a crowd, chanting in the roadway and scoffing on the pavement, I could not hope to penetrate, and dreading to go back and farther from home again, and deciding on the spur of the moment, I ran up the white steps of a house facing the museum railings, and stood there until the crowd should have passed.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

the Chaldeans since he

So that when Stephen adds, "Then Abraham went out of the land of [Pg 129] the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran," [262] this does not point out what took place after God spoke to him (for it was not after these words of God that he went out of the land of the Chaldeans, since he says that God spoke to him in Mesopotamia), but the word " then " which he uses refers to that whole period from his going out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelling in Haran.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

to carve second helpings

Gabriel began to carve second helpings as soon as he had finished the first round without serving himself.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

the clothes she had

As Hetty began languidly to take off the clothes she had worn all the night, that sh
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

the child seated herself

There was once a little child whose mother gave her every afternoon a small bowl of milk and bread, and the child seated herself in the yard with it.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

this church said he

"You must not come to this church," said he: "I see you are ill, and this church is too cold; you must come to my house: I live——" (and he gave me his address).
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

The circles should have

The circles should have the same objective.
— from The Jesus of History by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover

to cuddle since he

I forced my eyes to drink up the tears that they had let get as far as my lashes, and put my arm under his head and cuddled him against my shoulder, my shoulder that has had to learn to cuddle since he got hurt.
— from Phyllis by Maria Thompson Daviess

the contract signed half

I made a bargain with them at once to take my houses at sixty cents per square foot, and had the contract signed, half to be delivered at the side of the ship by such a date and the other half at a subsequent date.
— from The Adventures of a Forty-niner An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days by Daniel Knower

the count should have

Count Pateroff had come to him at Lady Ongar's request, and therefore, as he thought, the count should have been the first to mention her.
— from The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

They could still hear

They could still hear that low and ominous growling and snarling.
— from The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound; or, A Tour on Skates and Iceboats by George A. Warren

The cattle show has

The cattle show has been, and perhaps may again be, succeeded by a poultry show, of whose crowing and clucking prodigies it can only be certainly predicated that they will be very unlike the aboriginal Phasianus gallus.
— from Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley

the community should have

Let any person, however, of unsophisticated taste and true piety read “The Christian's Great Interest,” which was the only work published by Guthrie himself, and it will not surprise him that a church, which had many such village pastors, should have fixed itself in the affections of the nation at large, and that instructed by such men, the humblest classes of the community should have had so much religious knowledge, as Bishop Burnet 46 somewhat reluctantly admits they possessed.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

that certain statues had

For instance, if it were contended that certain statues had been chiselled by inspired men, such statues should be superior to any that uninspired man has made.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll

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