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  • If a voman haf t'e desire of lofe and of beauty, and lofe and beauty come not to her, t'en I pity her, because I am less vise and resolute to vit'hold pity t'an

    The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Harriet Stark

  • Wu-ting-chou being a place designated for the payment of an instalment of wages, and also the time having come for pork money, my coolies had a grand feast, after which they devoted themselves to gambling away their hard-earned money in games of "fan t'an."

    A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall

  • It is not fair to t'e vorld to vit'hold t'is precious gift one hour longer t'an is necessary to experiment, to try, to make sure.

    The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Harriet Stark

  • Her best vork lives a little v'ile and produces its kind, and t'e vorst does not, and t'ey go down t'e dark vay toget'er and Nature neit'er veeps nor relents Kosmos is greater t'an t'e indifidual and a million years are short.

    The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Harriet Stark

  • More beautiful t'an any ot'er voman since t'e appearance of man on eart '.

    The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Harriet Stark

  • He is a young man who wants to marry my daughter Marie, and he called me up to tell me t'at when he opened t'e wault a little while ago he found t'at since he closed it t'e night before a package wit 'more t'an a million dollars in bonds was gone.

    The Mystery of the Steel Disc 1905

  • No name approaching 'tangram,' or even 'tan,' occurs in Chinese, and the only suggestions for the latter were the Chinese _t'an_, 'to extend'; or

    Amusements in Mathematics Henry Ernest Dudeney 1893

  • He look't more as like himself, when he hat the horse t'ieves from New Englant taken up, t'an he hast for many a tay.

    Satanstoe James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • "Vell, t'at is more t'an I can tell you, Mr. Guert.

    Satanstoe James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • "No young fly-away in All_pon_ny hast more knowletge in t'ese matters t'an

    Satanstoe James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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