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that handsome young man I caught
"Who is that handsome young man I caught tête-a-tête with you, Clara?"
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The house you mean is called
The house you mean is called Manilovka because Manilovka is its name; but no house at all is called ZAmanilovka.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

the hole you made in Caesar
In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words; Witness the hole you made in Caesar’s heart, Crying, “Long live!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

than he you mean I care
For example, if you say, I care more for you than he , you mean, I care more for you than he cares for you.
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton

to have your money I continued
'If you choose to have your money,' I continued, 'it is yours.
— from Discipline by Mary Brunton

the hole you made in Caesar
Witness the hole you made in Caesar's heart, Crying "Long live!
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

the handsome young man is changed
Certain variants of the ballad bear the title of The Croodlin Doo , and the ‘handsome young man’ is changed for a child, and the poisoner is the child’s step-mother.
— from Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series by Frank Sidgwick

thrown his young mind into confusion
News had arrived an hour before which had thrown his young mind into confusion: the soldiers were out for conscripts, and would in all probability arrive at the Rancho Los Palos Verdes that evening or the following morning.
— from The Valiant Runaways by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

the howe young maid I cannot
I will rather give thee the sword from the howe, young maid; I cannot refuse thee.”
— from The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 by L. Winifred Faraday

the hole you made in Cæsar
Witness the hole you made in Cæsar's heart, Crying, 'Long live!
— from The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by William Shakespeare

twelve handsome young men I called
Anyone would have been proud of the twelve handsome young men I called my sons.
— from Legendary Heroes of Ireland by Harold F. Hughes

than him you mean I care
But if you say, I care more for you than him , you mean, I care more for you than I care for him.
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton


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