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to have your luggage examined
He had gone down in the world, and was acting as one of the 'commissionnaires' they call them, who take your keys to the Custom-house to have your luggage examined; and when he came to ask me to employ him, I said, “'What! — from Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever
to heaven you lose every
“Then go it alone,” exploded Nels at last, “and I hope to heaven you lose every one of your cattle, that your grass burns up and your water holes go dry.” — from Slim Evans and His Horse Lightning by Graham M. Dean
three hundred years lay Eileen
Under those dark, deep waters, asleep for three hundred years, lay Eileen, with all her massive ornaments on her neck and arms, and red-gold Irish hair. — from The Cuckoo Clock by Mrs. Molesworth
to her youthful lights every
She was dressed according to her youthful lights; every separate article of her apparel to-day, from her rowdyish little hat to her openwork hose, represented a battle with Mrs. Paget's preconceived ideas as to propriety in dress, with the honors largely for Rebecca. — from Mother: A Story by Kathleen Thompson Norris
this hot young Lover enter
And if I see this hot young Lover enter, I’ll save my Wife the trouble of allaying The amorous Heat—this—will more nimbly do’t, [ Snatches out his Dagger . — from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Aphra Behn
to hear your lordship enlarge
I could not, therefore, but wonder to hear your lordship enlarge so much, and so long, on I know not what varnish of manners and good breeding; of the knowledge of men and the world; of arts, languages, and other trappings and shewy appendages of education: just as if an architect should entertain you with a discourse on Festoons and Foliage, or the finishing of his Frize and Capitals, when you expected him to instruct you in what way to erect a solid edifice on firm walls and durable foundations. — from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 4 (of 8) by Richard Hurd
the hole your little eye
[Pg 144] I have seen you, little mouse HAVE have seen you, little mouse, Running all about the house, Through the hole, your little eye — from National Rhymes of the Nursery by Various
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