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The very hound stretched itself with a bold, ferocious insolence, and seemed to regard no one with respect, save the stern knight whom it called master.
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No doubt the one-eyed statesman felt within his savage and much sophisticated breast the unwonted feelings of sympathy with, and perhaps even pity for, the man he called his master.
Almayer's Folly 2006
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But the gazelle answered, ‘You must keep them safe till I call my master.’
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The king was filled with curiosity; and he said, "I'll let you borrow the ganta, monkey, but you must tell me first who is this Juan whom you call your master."
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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"I-- I myself," cried François hotly, -- "I am nobler, braver, greater than this beast you call master."
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Amanda, who had never met a Junker in her happy democratic life, was stirred into bristling emotion by the word master.
Christopher and Columbus Elizabeth von Arnim 1903
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But the gazelle answered, ` You must keep them safe till I call my master. '
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No doubt the one-eyed statesman felt within his savage and much sophisticated breast the unwonted feelings of sympathy with, and perhaps even pity for, the man he called his master.
Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river Joseph Conrad 1890
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He found an opportunity to write on the Canongate Churchyard, where Fergusson lies, under the monument erected by Burns to the boy of genius whom he called his master.
Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir Andrew Lang 1878
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But his life would have been far happier and his success much greater had he followed in one respect the example of him he called his master.
James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury 1876
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