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"If you please; it is a simple test I am requiring of you, sir."

From That Affair Next Door by Green, Anna Katharine

There is nothing you may wish to learn that he cannot teach you; to me, certainly, he is a perfect mine of learning whenever I am requiring any out-of-the-way information.

From Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 by Firth, John Benjamin

He laid the foundation of all his after power by doing precisely what I am requiring my own pupils to do,—copying German engravings in facsimile!

From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by Ruskin, John