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"ref": "1983, Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure",
"text": "She leaned over and picked up Lightning. \"By your leave, your Grace.\"",
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"ref": "2006, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest",
"text": "\"By your leave, Mr. Turner\" […] \"By YOUR leave, Mr. Norrington.\"",
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"text": "1897, Shanghai Mercury, Shanghai by Night and Day: Illustrated by 23 Reproductions from Photographs. Vol. I.\nThe natives have gathered on the top of every grave mound near by and though many resent the riding over their fields without a so much as a 'By your leave' […]"
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"text": "1946, Konstantin Trenev, In a Cossack Village, and Other Stories\nHe picked flowers without so much as a 'by your leave.'"
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"ref": "1979, Monty Python's Life of Brian, spoken by Ex-Leper (Michael Palin)",
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"text": "1986, Judith A. Jance, Trial by Fury\n'To a place you've broken into without so much as a by-your-leave, to say nothing of a search warrant?'"
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