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up now but at your
“There! I am up now; but at your peril you fetch a candle yet: wait two minutes till I get into some dry garments, if any dry there be—yes, here is my dressing-gown.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

unearthly noise between a yell
With an unearthly noise, between a yell and a snarl, the gymnast rolled off his bed and under it by a single unbroken movement.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

unfortunately not been as yet
The development of the skeleton has unfortunately not been as yet very fully studied.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 3 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Vertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

us nothing back and you
“Austria squeezes and gives us nothing back, and you squeeze to enlarge and beautify our towns; you stimulated us by giving us an army.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

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