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The word _I_ in the first sentence, the word _thou_ in the second, and the word _he_ in the third have each a different use.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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The word _I_ in the first sentence, the word _thou_ in the second, and the word _he_ in the third have each a different use.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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The word _I_ in the first sentence, the word _thou_ in the second, and the word _he_ in the third have each a different use.
Graded Lessons in English an Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room Brainerd Kellogg
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They were the posture-girls, and anything worse besides the name _I_ never saw.
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"Rotter, I think," said Mr. Burke, "was precisely the word _I_ used."
The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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I thought of Marm Granby, and her being "dying to know us," and I thought of the lies about the "hod of change" and all the rest, and I give you my word _I_ didn't grin, not enough to show my wisdom teeth, anyhow.
Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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The word _I_ implies the imperative, a form of request or demand, though that is probably not the intent.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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"And _I_, also, will look after her," cried Lady Szentirmay, with a strong emphasis on the word _I_; for she had observed that Kárpáthy's good-natured appeal had somewhat confused his wife.
A Hungarian Nabob M��r J��kai 1864
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It is but that the deeper soul that willed and wills our souls, rises up, the infinite Life, into the Self we call _I_ and
Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. George MacDonald 1864
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In that discussion, too, the word _I_ is often shifted from one meaning to another, at one time standing for my volitions, at another time for the actions which are the consequences of them, or the mental dispositions from which they proceed.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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