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  • This is the third time-the third time that we know of-that Chase has tried to make us pay our neighbor's water bill.

    Alfred Gingold: CHASE HOME FINANCE: RABID WEASEL 2010

  • It was rumored in the family-though Mick had never heard it spoken of-that she might become a nun.

    Second Skin Lustbader, Eric 1995

  • She had a vague notion of what he might be thinking of-that this two-legged beast might be worth considerable as a freak in a black-market show.

    If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993

  • "Since there is only one Elspeth with a mother by that name that I know of-that Kero would have been so secretive about-I can understand why you are in that role," he said.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • "Since there is only one Elspeth with a mother by that name that I know of-that Kero would have been so secretive about-I can understand why you are in that role," he said.

    Winds Of Fate Lackey, Mercedes 1991

  • The dwellers of heaven, thus speaking of-that monarch, asked one another these questions about Yayati, that ruler of men.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Even more distinct is the memory of-that awfully hot day in early July when I was almost the sole inhabitant left on Monroe Hill, bound fast by the hard labour of preparing for the final examination in Intermediate Mathematics, for graduation in that school depended on this class also.

    In the days of my youth when I was a student in the University of Virginia, 1888-1893. James Powell Cocke 1947

  • In the times I speak of-that is, when the old military schools were in operation-thousands of the best young men of the country took their certificates and were eligible for commissions in the Militia.

    Canada and Imperial Defence 1906

  • 'Not a doubt of-that, if you set about it in earnest.'

    Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864

  • "I wonder Sally didn't think of-that," said Nancy -- "sure she might know that no living crathur would be out lamenting under such a night as that was."

    The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

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