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see yourself murmured Phebe looking
"Ah, you do not see yourself!" murmured Phebe, looking adoringly back at her.
— from Only an Incident by Grace Denio Litchfield

show you my plight like
I do but show you my plight, like a truant schoolboy who has tumbled into the gutter, and then I retire for repairs.”
— from Dust: A Novel by Julian Hawthorne

showed you my present light
Thus have I showed you my present light into this portion of the Holy Scripture.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

skill you may perhaps like
By-and-by, when you have acquired some skill, you may perhaps like to have a pair of light ski for the mountains where you intend to go carefully and take no risks, 30 and where consequently the chance of a break is considerably less; but you will appreciate them all the more if you have got into the way of using a heavier article down below.
— from Ski-running by Willi Rickmer Rickmers

scare you my proud little
“Did I scare you, my proud little maid?”
— from Mason of Bar X Ranch by Henry Holcomb Bennett

serious young mountaineer playing loyally
Bob smiled at the serious young mountaineer, playing loyally his part even to his fellow-conspirator.
— from The Rules of the Game by Stewart Edward White

sparrows you must put little
If you are troubled by sparrows you must put little twigs near your crocuses and wind black cotton from one to the other.
— from The Children's Book of Gardening by Mrs. Paynter

sent you Mr Punch looking
Well, Sir, I sent you " Mr. Punch looking at the Midnight Sun ."
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 9, 1890 by Various

sic y materiales para la
“Bando del Duque de Medinaceli (Don —— de la Cerda), gobernador de Cadiz, prohibiendo el comercio y trafico de vastimentos ( sic ) y materiales para la costa de Africa;” 4 July, 1664 f. 8 6.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos


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