And, in your lug, most reverend James, To hear you roar and rowt, Few men o' sense will doubt your claims To rank amang the nowt.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
It was bad enough when you—I thought you were just a friend, but now—now when you're just everything to me, I cuc-can't bear to have you run any risks.
— from The Rider of Golden Bar by William Patterson White
Much as we wanted to see you, we could have waited until it was quite safe for you to use it, rather than have you run any risks.”
— from Aunt Crete's Emancipation by Grace Livingston Hill
You tells how you raises a roar if you don’t git your coin, but what does yer do to earn it?”
— from Frank Merriwell's Triumph; Or, The Disappearance of Felicia by Burt L. Standish
"Well, I told Samanthy I'd bring you back with me, and she's going to have your room all ready.
— from Dick Hamilton's Fortune; Or, The Stirring Doings of a Millionaire's Son by Howard Roger Garis
Mr. Gallatin thought it would be best to commit the business to the same Committee of the Whole to which they had yesterday referred a report of the Committee of Claims on the subject of excepting a certain description of claims from the operation of that act.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress
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