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1 Take our warning here when we say rather get dessert somewhere else.
2 But it was embarrassment that caused her now to say rather aimlessly:
3 Something ugly; shall we not say rather something formless transmuted into form!
4 What the half-breed had to say rather took the sergeant aback.
5 Or, I should say rather , it is then that I don't see it.
6 The cynic or the fall-of-man theologian replies-Grandeurindeed, say rather squalor and shame.
7 Other calculations, or say rather , conjectures, reduce the consumption to about half this.
8 Your majesty, say rather that I am struck with admiration than with amazement.
9 And I have felt sorely tempted to say rather snappishly, 'No, she wasn't.'
10 Since you are an Italian, say rather , 'Alas, that it is not so!'
11 No, say rather , that confounded work which you have undertaken.
12 Ah, say rather the hand, the method of the painter!
13 Oh, say rather what you have consecrated my life to.
14 She is really not sugary enough for a preserve; I should say rather well canned.
15 I loved quite as well as you; indeed, I think I may say rather better.
16 She is sweetly pretty, though they say rather a flirt, and flighty in her ways.
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