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I will digress here to explain our after-dinner games.

From Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Asquith, Margot

And here I will digress a moment to make a single remark on a subject of which popular feeling, in America, under the influence of popular habits, is apt to take an exparte view.

From Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore

I will digress here for a moment to state that the fear that a person has ceased to love us because he loves somebody else is often groundless.

From Woman Her Sex and Love Life by Robinson, William J.

I will digress here for a moment to chronicle, with deep sorrow, the sad fate that ultimately befell the kind and noble surgeon, Maj.

From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Stillwell, Leander

I will digress a little to give an account of the Duke's character, whom I knew for some years so particularly, that I can say much upon my own knowledge.

From Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles by Various