Example Sentences

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"Instead of which, here I am rescuing beleaguered damsels, like the hero of a dime novel, on two thousand a year."

From The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Garland, Hamlin

"I am doing the King a service," he said: "I am rescuing him from false friends: and, as to my place, that shall never be a gag to prevent me from speaking my mind."

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron