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  • The possibility of Julius Caesar having had a sixth right finger which was never burnt is, as before, easily representable by, say, the sentence,

    Possible Objects Yagisawa, Takashi 2009

  • I'm right off the man now and starting to feel less sympathy for Henry's debilitating bouts of constipation (and will hold back on telling him about the prunes,) so it was a good thing he quickly redeemed himself in the next sentence,

    44 entries from December 2007 2007

  • I'm right off the man now and starting to feel less sympathy for Henry's debilitating bouts of constipation (and will hold back on telling him about the prunes,) so it was a good thing he quickly redeemed himself in the next sentence,

    Henry James 2007

  • I'm right off the man now and starting to feel less sympathy for Henry's debilitating bouts of constipation (and will hold back on telling him about the prunes,) so it was a good thing he quickly redeemed himself in the next sentence,

    Henry James 2007

  • In his June address to AIPAC, Obama specifically recommended his own prescription for peace that included the following sentence,

    Michael Carmichael: Obama Forces Flip-Flops to Paralyze McCain 2008

  • There appears nothing very tremendous in this little sentence,

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

  • “Now, I tell you, miss,” she proceeded, clapping her hands in her hurry and agitation a dozen times in every sentence,

    Bleak House 2007

  • She stopped at the bottom of the steep, broad flight of stairs; but we looked back as we went up, and she was still there, saying, still with a curtsy and a smile between every little sentence,

    Bleak House 2007

  • After this severe, but just reflection, I would have avoided reading the following, although I had unawares begun the sentence,

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • So you must be the first that gives this sentence,

    Measure for Measure 2004

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