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But they will not reach me, because you will not know in which direction to send them, and I will not care whether you are angry or not You have been good to me, Patsy, and I really love you--fully as much as I have fear of that shrewd and pretty cousin of yours, whose cold eyes have made me tremble more than once.

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  1. pronoun Used to refer to the one or ones being addressed: I'll lend you the book. You shouldn't work so hard. See Regional Notes at you-all, you-uns.
  2. pronoun Used to refer to an indefinitely specified person; one: You can't win them all.
  3. pronoun Nonstandard Used reflexively as the indirect object of a verb: You might want to get you another pair of shoes. See Note at me.

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  • She has talked about you to me--you are so good-looking, so distinguished, she wants to know whether you are a Count or a Prince in disguise, and all sorts of things Talbot smiled. —  A Girl of the Klondike
  • "Then you are an Eden Of course: and my father is close by here with a dozen stout men to punish these villains and save you, and--you do not say anything about your child There was no reply, and Mark pressed the hand he held, to find that there was no response, and that it was turning wet and cold, for the unfortunate prisoner had been unable to bear the tidings, and had swooned away Go back," whispered Mark, "and tell my father whom we have found Leave the light?" —  The Black Tor A Tale of the Reign of James the First
  • Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. —  The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
  • But that is not my meaning I mean that every Point in you--for you are a Square and will serve the purpose of my illustration--every Point in you, that is to say in what you call your inside, is to pass upwards through Space in such a way that no Point shall pass through the position previously occupied by any other Point; but each Point shall describe a straight Line of its own. —  Flatland: a romance of many dimensions
  • But you--you can figure the percentage against you, and then if you buck the tiger and get stung, you do it with your eyes open. —  The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English ēow, dative and accusative of , ye, you; see yu- in Indo-European roots.
 

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