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she thought I looked like your
She saw me a-going about, miss," said Charley with a short laugh of the greatest delight and pride, "and she thought I looked like your maid!"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

saying This is like last year
This act threw him with a jerk back into the days of the past, recalling so vividly the former life of himself and Valentine that he could not help saying: "This is like last year."
— from Flames by Robert Hichens

she thinks I looked like you
It was I who won her, but she thinks I looked like you."
— from A War-Time Wooing: A Story by Charles King

so that in later life you
When they send you to school to get an education, so that in later life you may enjoy good books, you are catching fish over their shoulders.
— from Fifty-Two Story Talks to Boys and Girls by Howard J. (Howard James) Chidley

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