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I till you, colonel, there ain’t no use in your stoppin’ another minnit!” impatiently cried the good-natured Irishman, interrupting his half-hearted expostulator.

From The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea by Austin, Henry

My inclination ought, perhaps, to be absolutely neuter; but, if I know myself, it is with reluctance that I withhold my assent from the expostulator.

From Jane Talbot by Brown, Charles Brockden