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to thyself this

Figure to thyself this Tilly, of a snowy evening,—no hat,—shoes down at
— from American Historical and Literary Curiosities: Second Series, Complete by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith

to take these

Before that I have to take these men down and put them to bed.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

this time they

Tell him that our conversation at the inn of the Red Dovecot was overheard by these four men; tell him that after his departure one of them came up to me and took from me by violence the safe-conduct which he had given me; tell him they warned Lord de Winter of my journey to England; that this time they nearly foiled my mission as they foiled the affair of the studs; tell him that among these four men two only are to be feared--d’Artagnan and Athos; tell him that the third, Aramis, is the lover of Madame de Chevreuse--he may be left alone, we know his secret, and it may be useful; as to the fourth, Porthos, he is a fool, a simpleton, a blustering booby, not worth troubling himself about.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

think that three

Edward had two thousand pounds, and Elinor one, which, with Delaford living, was all that they could call their own; for it was impossible that Mrs. Dashwood should advance anything; and they were neither of them quite enough in love to think that three hundred and fifty pounds a-year would supply them with the comforts of life.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

to trace the

I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man, or a musket to shoot one with,—the dollar is innocent,—but
— from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

they took them

And they took them, as the Lord commanded them.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

that then took

“I remember distinctly the strange alteration that then took place in her.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Then thus the

Then thus the blue-eyed maid: "O full of days!
— from The Odyssey by Homer

then turned to

We walked along the North Strand Road till we came to the Vitriol Works and then turned to the right along the Wharf Road.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

testify to the

Instances of this sort can be found, beyond all doubt; only the surprise, the emotion, and the high respect awakened, when we hear of them, testify to the fact that they are unexpected and very exceptional.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

talking to the

He was talking to the girl in a high-keyed yet somewhat blustering voice, asking questions which Win could not and did not try to hear.
— from Winnie Childs, the Shop Girl by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

the town there

In the centre of the town there is an open
— from Due West; Or, Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou

to tolerate the

The disorders which were the inevitable result of a free traffic in intoxicating liquors, finally assumed such proportions that the council, without going as far as the absolute 116 prohibition of the sale of brandy to the Indians, restricted, nevertheless, this deplorable traffic; it forbade under the most severe penalties the carrying of firewater into the woods to the savages, but it continued to tolerate the sale of intoxicating liquors in the French settlements.
— from The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval by Adrien Leblond

transported to the

If you had your deserts, you would be in a felon's cell to-night, or transported to the wilds of Australia!'
— from That Mainwaring Affair by A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour

them three times

You saw them three times?
— from Warren Commission (12 of 26): Hearings Vol. XII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

these the thanks

Then he: "Ah, traitorous and truant slave! Are these the thanks thou renderest, ingrate, For giving thee a maid without a peer?"
— from Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics Second Series by James Williams

this then the

And is this, then, the woman criminal, the criminaloid, as I have called her (Vol. II of my "Uomo Delinquente")?
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

time the temptation

The young cricketer has many opportunities of displaying the Christian qualities of patience and restraint, and every time the temptation to sit down in the middle of the pitch and howl grows weaker.
— from Public School Life: Boys, Parents, Masters by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

the table that

"There," said she, putting it on the table, "that is all that I can find."
— from The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat

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