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There was a certain difficulty in obtaining the necessary funds without announcing precisely what they-were for.
HYACINTHGEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM
A rose from the cottage of Mavis Clare?a rose from the garden of Eden!they are one and the same to me!
THE SORROWS OF SATANMARIE CORELLI
"Reckon I could hold my own agin most of they-uns if I only had a new-fangled gun," returned the boy.
What a noble illustration of the tender laws of this favoured country!they let the paupers go to sleep!
OLIVER TWIST, VOL. I (OF 3)CHARLES DICKENS
Father declared that he could not lift his feet-they seemed sealed to the ground, and he felt that he must go back.
PRECIOUS MEMORIESVARIOUS
Six syllables are like six figures-they get you dizzy when you commence fooling with them!
AMAZING GRACEKATE TRIMBLE SHARBER
After this trip my name was changed to ‘They-know-that-Leader.’
PAWNEE HERO STORIES AND FOLK-TALESGEORGE BIRD GRINNELL
What about your hands and face-they go with the clothes, don't they?
THE WHITE MOLLFRANK L. PACKARD
Then, with disappointment depicted in every line of his suddenly weary body, he gloomily stammered: "Th-th-th-they've gone home!"
THE BRASS BOUND BOXEVELYN RAYMOND
These friends are down there as a sort of permanent arrangement—stop-as-long-as-they-like sort of thing.
THE CRUISE OF THE MAKE-BELIEVESTOM GALLON
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