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• However, it's all new and interesting to me You will stay with us for a time, won't you He favoured me with another grim look Well, that all depends--I haven't quite decided yet. —  The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
• "Is it James or Gilbert who opens the door That just depends, my leddy," said Miss Aline, "sometimes one is more fit to be seen than another. —  Patsy
• Is it possible that you'll ever settle down again That depends--" Archie remarked, glancing meaningfully at Isabel,--a glance which Mrs. Congdon detected and appraised with that prescience which makes every woman a match-maker On the wharf they lingered, like a company of old friends reluctant for even a brief parting; Ruth, lantern in hand, stood beside Mrs. Graybill, looking like a child beside the stately woman. —  Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
• I think it right to speak frankly, for everything depends--and always hereafter will depend--on the patient's being saved as much as possible from the repetition of any former annoyance or sorrow. —  The Daughters of Danaus
• It is my object in this short Paper to show upon what the perfection or imperfection of the various stones for building purposes depends--a matter of great moment to an architect or engineer who is desirous that his work should last Sandstones, or, in masons' language, "free-stones," from the freedom with which most of them are worked when freshly taken from the quarry, are plastic or sedimentary rocks. —  The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890

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