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  • When his old friend John Street's son volunteered for special service, he shook his head querulously, and wondered what John Street was about to allow it; and when young Street was assagaied, he took it so much to heart that he made a point of calling everywhere with the special object of saying: He knew how it would be -- he'd no patience with them!

    The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900

  • When his old friend John Street's son volunteered for special service, he shook his head querulously, and wondered what John Street was about to allow it; and when young Street was assagaied, he took it so much to heart that he made a point of calling everywhere with the special object of saying: He knew how it would be -- he'd no patience with them!

    The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property John Galsworthy 1900

  • Street's son volunteered for special service, he shook his head querulously, and wondered what John Street was about to allow it; and when young Street was assagaied, he took it so much to heart that he made

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Street was assagaied, he took it so much to heart that he made a point of calling everywhere with the special object of saying: He knew how it would be — he’d no patience with them!

    The Man of Property 2004

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