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“Think better of my zeal, Lady,” said the steward,
The Abbot 2008
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“Nor at thine own either, my son” replied the steward,
The Abbot 2008
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So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward,
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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While Hilda was thus haughty and repellent to her servants, there was one to whom she was accessible; and this was the new steward,
The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille
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Sir William Argentine knight, by reason of the tenure of his manour of Wilmundale in the countie of Hertford, serued the king of the first cup of drinke which he tasted of at his dinner the daie of his coronation: the cup was of siluer vngilt, which the same knight had for his fées: notwithstanding the petition which Iuon Fitzwarren presented to the lord steward,
Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV Raphael Holinshed
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Shalt thou never eat nor drink, said the steward,
A Little Geste of Robin Hood and his Meiny. The Third Fytte 1910
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My father sent me over the sea with the false steward,
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I tell you all these things without attempting to draw any deductions from them, for, for my own part, I haven't the least idea why the steward,
Fantômas Pierre Souvestre 1894
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If any of our brethren have sold books, etc., for the district steward,
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I had of course my own bedding, and by paying a Mexican dollar a day to the Chinese steward,
An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma George Ernest Morrison 1891
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