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Examples
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Je ne sais pas comment vous lisez mes notes mais je tenez a faire cette precision!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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Ah, tenez! when we marched to the terrible stake together at
Roundabout Papers 2006
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“Mangez, donc, avec du pain!” or, “Comment est-ce que vous tenez votre fourchette?”
Childhood 2003
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But, tenez, as the Comtesse of Z---- would say, I can exactly illustrate the position and attitude of the two of them from a recollection of my childhood.
The Hohenzollerns in America Stephen Leacock 1906
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"And now, M'sieur, I shall take you to my house; _tenez_, figure to yourself," and he laid a fine, richly veined, strong old hand upon my arm with a charming gesture.
Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders George Wharton Edwards 1904
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Sur ma parole tenez bon, Belise de l'amour ne hait que le nom.
Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century Robinson, Charles Henry 1903
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Bien droit he has it -- tenez, mon capitaine -- here, over the left eye! ...
The Flaming Jewel 1899
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Bien droit he has it -- tenez, mon capitaine -- here, over the left eye! ...
The Flaming Jewel 1899
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I lifted the leaves, which here were not so thick as in most places, and saw a shield carved with arms, and on it the motto I knew well: "_D'Arthenay, tenez foi! _"
Rosin the Beau Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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"_D'Arthenay, tenez foi! n'est-ce pas, monsieur? _"
Rosin the Beau Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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