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  • I witnessed at least one minor skirmish taking place at one of the long reading tables on the third floor as a daughter admonished her mother for wanting to take a lunch break of all things! instead of powering through her hunger in the name of family history.

    Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

  • I witnessed at least one minor skirmish taking place at one of the long reading tables on the third floor as a daughter admonished her mother for wanting to take a lunch break of all things! instead of powering through her hunger in the name of family history.

    Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

  • “Oh, you wicked things!” she cried, hugging Grace and then Frank, who looked foolishly pleased even though he hated parties, before wrapping me and Lea in a fragrant embrace.

    Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009

  • Oh! you dear, shabby, disrespectable, darling things! she said.

    The RACKETTY-PACKETTY House Frances Hodgson Burnett 2006

  • Zar had told her that the Enterprise was capable of traveling so fast that it could circle this entire world which he had told her was round, of all things! in less time than it would take to blink an eye.

    Time for Yesterday A. C. Crispin 1990

  • “You will not say such things!” the waitress said.

    The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953

  • “But I don’t do any of these things!” you may be saying.

    God Attachment Dr. Tim Clinton 2010

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