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young and handsome of one Sir
Middleton, and others, and among other things about a very rich widow, young and handsome, of one Sir Nicholas Gold’s, a merchant, lately fallen, and of great courtiers that already look after her: her husband not dead a week yet.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

young and handsome of one Sir
At the Coffee-house, where much talking about a very rich widow, young and handsome, of one Sir Nicholas Gold's, a merchant, lately fallen, and of great courtiers that; already look after her: her husband not dead a week yet.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

You are here only on sufferance
You are here only on sufferance!'
— from The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

you are here only on sufferance
And remember that you are here only on sufferance.
— from In the Sweet Dry and Dry by Bart Haley

young and handsome of one Sir
Middleton, and others, and among other things about a very rich widow, young and handsome, of one Sir Nicholas Gold's, a merchant, lately fallen, and of great courtiers that already look after her: her husband not dead a week yet.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 26: January/February 1663-64 by Samuel Pepys

you are hardly out of sight
Instead of that, here you are, hardly out of sight of camp, perched on the top of a wagon, as chipper as a couple of sparrows after a rainstorm."
— from Campmates: A Story of the Plains by Kirk Munroe

Yunis as having occurred on September
[53] A close conjunction of Venus and Regulus (α Leonis) is recorded by the Arabian astronomer, Ibn Yunis, as having occurred on September 9, 885 A.D. Calculations by Hind show that the planet and star were within 2′ of arc on that night, and consequently would have appeared as a single star to the naked eye.
— from Astronomical Curiosities: Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard (John Ellard) Gore


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