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then he laughed and said Perhaps it

And then he laughed and said, “Perhaps it was Mrs. Brown he had seen going to pay a visit to some one in the servants’ hall.” ’
— from Lady William by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

teach his lad a single prayer I

Brimful of porter, when I'm able, This can is fill'd for my own table, 'Tis from this can I learnt this story, Which I have laid so plain before you; For my poor dad, though stout and strong, Let slip his wind when I was young; Nor had th' old Grecian time to spare, To teach his lad a single prayer: I shame to tell the truth, but all The prayers that I can say, I stole.
— from A Burlesque Translation of Homer by Bridges, Thomas, active 1759-1775

they had left a small planet in

It was just after they had left a small planet in the Procyon system, one of the routine check-in points, that they made contact with the Garvian trading ship.
— from Star Surgeon by Alan Edward Nourse

tell her ladies always say please in

Well, would I please tell her (ladies always say "please" in a particularly wheedling way when they ask what they know they should not),—would I please tell her which was the faster.
— from At Start and Finish by William Lindsey

to his lips and slowly poured it

“Beer ain’t good for boys,” he said gruffly; and then, blowing off the froth, he put the vessel to his lips, and slowly poured it all down, without stopping, to the very last drop; after which he uttered a heavy sigh of either pleasure or regret, and brought his eyes to bear on me.
— from The Story of Antony Grace by George Manville Fenn

the Heart Located at suitable places in

[pg 043] Valves of the Heart. —Located at suitable places in the heart are four gate-like contrivances, called valves.
— from Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools by Francis M. (Francis Marion) Walters

to have left any serious permanent impression

Neither of these sexual attempts appears to have left any serious permanent impression on the child's mind.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 3 Analysis of the Sexual Impulse; Love and Pain; The Sexual Impulse in Women by Havelock Ellis

then Hebrew Lecturer and Senior Proctor in

He had returned to Ireland as Chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant, and had been nominated, in rapid succession, Divinity Lecturer, Senior Greek Lecturer in Trinity College, then Dean of Dromore, then Hebrew Lecturer and Senior Proctor in Trinity College, then Rector of Ardtrea and Arboe, and lastly Dean of Derry; but no sooner had he fairly obtained the church preferment which his position and talents had merited, than he was eager to resign it—'his heart is ready to break if his deanery be not taken from him.'
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

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