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us not liking as your
I was one of the number: there were other people from the inn, and the brigands, it is very true, came and joined us; not liking, as your majesty may easily conceive, that the good Lord of Masseran, or any other lord, should take the trade out of their hands.
— from Corse de Leon; or, The Brigand: A Romance. Volume 1 (of 2) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

usual naked leaping and yelling
"The natives had a grand dance to-day; the men and women as usual naked, leaping, and yelling wild songs to an extraordinary accompaniment of music, produced by beating a long stick of extremely hard wood with a short stick of the same substance.
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

us need legalising as you
Then you can't rid yourself of the conviction that the relations between us need "legalising," as you say? Kroll.
— from Rosmersholm by Henrik Ibsen

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