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you Mrs Copperfield and
Poor Peggotty lifted up her hands and eyes, and only answered, in a sort of paraphrase of the grace I usually repeated after dinner, ‘Lord forgive you, Mrs. Copperfield, and for what you have said this minute, may you never be truly sorry!’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

you must collect all
Furthermore I say, and lay my saying to your heart; when Minerva shall put it in my mind, I will nod my head to you, and on seeing me do this you must collect all the armour that is in the house and hide it in the strong store room.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

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— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

ye may call Argus
And if thou dost desire to learn our names, this is Cytissorus, this Phrontis, and this Melas, and me ye may call Argus.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

you must come along
And now, then, you must come along with me, sirs, That is—the Lady:' clapping his hands twice, Four blacks were at his elbow in a trice.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

you might choose as
Thou must know that a certain widow, fair, young, independent, and rich, and above all free and easy, fell in love with a sturdy strapping young lay-brother; his superior came to know of it, and one day said to the worthy widow by way of brotherly remonstrance, 'I am surprised, senora, and not without good reason, that a woman of such high standing, so fair, and so rich as you are, should have fallen in love with such a mean, low, stupid fellow as So-and-so, when in this house there are so many masters, graduates, and divinity students from among whom you might choose as if they were a lot of pears, saying this one I'll take, that I won't take;'
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

you might call a
“A what you might call a—a gentleman.”
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

you might call a
And if you talk natural to 'em, way we do here, and show finesse and what you might call a broad point of view, why, they think you're putting on side.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

you must come and
“And now, Cyril, you must come and see father,” said Josephine.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

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— from Sons of the Morning by Eden Phillpotts

you make candy And
Can you make candy? And pull it—like this?' "'Once a lady stirred me some an' cut it up in squares,' Chris explained, 'but I never did make any.
— from Mothers to Men by Zona Gale

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— from The Epicurean: A Tale by Thomas Moore

You must come and
"You must come, and the captain, too.
— from Richard Carvel — Volume 05 by Winston Churchill

you marry Cosimo and
You see how much I care who you marry, Cosimo, and why.”
— from Gray youth: The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage by Oliver Onions

you must convene a
Saltren, you must convene a public meeting, make a demonstration, a torchlight procession of the out-of-work, issue a remonstrance.
— from Arminell: A Social Romance, Vol. 1 by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

you my cloak again
I would offer you my cloak, again, but that I fear it would betray you.
— from The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Hewlett

you my cake and
But the prudent youth answered, “If I give you my cake and wine, I shall have none for myself.
— from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm


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