Example Sentences

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I hope, Sir, said he, to his father—I hope, Madam, to his mother—that you will not endeavour to recover a faulty daughter by losing an unculpable son.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Richardson, Samuel