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too which I shall tell you
There are others, too, which I shall tell you of, lest in our seeking we may need them.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

True water is softer than your
True, water is softer than your own delicate hands, and yet it polishes stones into shapes; it feels no pain as your fingers would feel, it has no soul, and cannot suffer such agony and torment as you will have to endure.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Therefore what I say to you
Therefore, what I say to you, Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, is, don't you go and let yourself be put out of the way because of my knowing anything of your family affairs."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

to what I say to you
Listen to what I say to you.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

these words I spoke to you
With an obstinacy dreadful to see, she went back again to the place where she had checked herself, and completed her question in these words: “I spoke to you, a minute since, about what people were saying in certain quarters.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

to what I spoke to you
“Have you given your consideration to what I spoke to you about?” asked Cornelius, pronouncing the words with difficulty, like a man in the cold fit of a fever.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

that which I said to you
He let some days pass, then, taking with him a trusty companion of his, he repaired to Madam Lisetta's house and withdrawing with her into a room apart, where none might see him, he fell on his knees before her and said, 'Madam, I pray you for God's sake pardon me that which I said to you last Sunday, whenas you bespoke me of your beauty, for that the following night I was so cruelly chastised there that I have not since been able to rise from my bed till to-day.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

the world is subject to you
Master yourself, Raymond, and the world is subject to you."
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

to what I say to you
How little attention you pay to what I say to you!
— from The Lucky Man by Monsieur (Michel) Baron

the words I spoke to you
"Forget it all," he said, "save the words I spoke to you over that forest grave.
— from Love Among the Ruins by Warwick Deeping

terrible will it seem to you
"It is, as you say, a terrible power," she answered gravely, "and the more you know of it the more terrible will it seem to you."
— from The Parasite: A Story by Arthur Conan Doyle

than what I said to you
But resuming his courage, he continued, "No, monseigneur, nothing, absolutely nothing more than what I said to you yesterday, and which I am again ready to repeat to you now."
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

to what I say to you
"I will explain it to you, my son," he said, "and listen carefully to what I say to you."
— from Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

two while I speak to you
"My dear Lady Anna," said the Serjeant, "may I ask you to sit down for a moment or two while I speak to you?
— from Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

the waves is suggestive to your
Every murmur of the waves is suggestive to your ears.
— from Tongues of Conscience by Robert Hichens

that what I say to you
Learn that what I say to you partakes of faith.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 09 by Voltaire

the words I say to you
"You like the words I say to you, then?" "Yes, indeed," said Mattie, wondering what would come next.
— from Guild Court: A London Story by George MacDonald


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