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"ref": "1760, [Arthur] Murphy, The Way to Keep Him, a Comedy in Three Acts: […], Dublin: Printed for G. and A. Ewing, […], →OCLC, act I, page 10",
"text": "Dear Ma'am, why will you chagrine yourſelf about a vile Man, that is not worth,—no, as I live and breathe,—not worth a ſingle Sigh?",
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"ref": "1827, George Boswell, Maria of the Mountain; or, The Castle of Balahana. (Founded on Facts.), London: Printed for the author, by R. Brown, […], →OCLC, page 15",
"text": "[O]ch, as I live and breathe, I would consider myself worse than the beast of the field, if I would be so ungrateful to my lady, who is now in distress.",
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"ref": "1877 February, “Who Signed It?”, in Frank Leslie’s Pleasant Hours. Devoted to Light and Entertaining Literature, volume XXII, number I, New York, N.Y.: Frank Leslie […], →OCLC, page 60, column 2",
"text": "I hid in one of the empty rooms, and I saw you go by, yes, and as I live and breathe, Liscom Truro, I saw my father following you.",
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"ref": "2003, James L. Clark, Eddie et alia, Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse, page 282",
"text": "As I live and breathe and eat here in the Wayfarers Inn on this August 21, 1999, I swear to you they're authentic, but of course anything I'd swear wouldn't be worth anything anyway, would it?",
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"ref": "2009, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Summoner’s Prologue and Tale”, in Peter Ackroyd, transl., The Canterbury Tales: [...] A Retelling, London: Penguin Books, page 196",
"text": "As I live and breathe, Thomas, you will not flourish unless you are part of our brotherhood. I swear that on all the saints.",
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"ref": "1864, Amelia B[lanford] Edwards, “The Torso of the Belvedere”, in Barbara’s History. A Novel (Harper’s Library of Select Novels; no. 241), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers, […], →OCLC, page 171, column 2",
"text": "Eh? What? Mercy alive! Hilda—Hilda, look here! Bab, as I live and breathe!",
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"ref": "1992, Örn, “When the Footprints Become Covered with Snow”, in Kirsten Wolf, Árný Hjaltadóttir, transl., Western Icelandic Short Stories, Winnipeg, Man.: University of Manitoba Press, page 138",
"text": "Well, well, as I live and breathe, it's Svend! My, what a great and dangerously huge fellow you have become!",
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"ref": "2000, Janette Oke, T. Davis Bunn, chapter 1, in The Sacred Shore, Bloomington, Minn.: Bethany House Publishers, page 11",
"text": "\"As I live and breathe, there's the Pride of Weymouth,\" cried the captain, moving up alongside him at the rail. \"Look at her resting there at anchor, calm as by-your-leave. I never thought we'd see her spars again.\"",
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"ref": "2005, Anita Diamant, “Cornelius”, in The Last Days of Dogtown: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, page 182",
"text": "\"Cornelius Finson, as I live and breathe,\" she proclaimed, \"I ain't seen you in a dog's age. Not that you were ever much of a visitor. Now let me have a look at what you've done to yourself.\"",
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"text": "Even as I live and breathe in this natural world all around me, I still find myself looking, minute-by-minute, with great interest and attention, for the supernatural work—that is—the miracles, the \"extra-ordinary\" events ordered by God.",
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"text": "This is what I take seriously / My life that lives within me / Lives within me just as I / Live and breathe",
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"ref": "2004, John Saleeby Jr., “Dawn of the Awful Waffle”, in The Awful Waffle: Hi Cholesterol Humor, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse",
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"text": "As I live and breathe day by day. / I feel myself fading away.",
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"text": "[O]ch, as I live and breathe, I would consider myself worse than the beast of the field, if I would be so ungrateful to my lady, who is now in distress.",
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"text": "I hid in one of the empty rooms, and I saw you go by, yes, and as I live and breathe, Liscom Truro, I saw my father following you.",
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"text": "Eh? What? Mercy alive! Hilda—Hilda, look here! Bab, as I live and breathe!",
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"text": "Well, well, as I live and breathe, it's Svend! My, what a great and dangerously huge fellow you have become!",
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"text": "\"As I live and breathe, there's the Pride of Weymouth,\" cried the captain, moving up alongside him at the rail. \"Look at her resting there at anchor, calm as by-your-leave. I never thought we'd see her spars again.\"",
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"text": "Even as I live and breathe in this natural world all around me, I still find myself looking, minute-by-minute, with great interest and attention, for the supernatural work—that is—the miracles, the \"extra-ordinary\" events ordered by God.",
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"text": "This is what I take seriously / My life that lives within me / Lives within me just as I / Live and breathe",
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"text": "As I live and breathe day by day. / I feel myself fading away.",
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"word": "como que vivo y respiro"
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