Synonyms for be (original) (raw)

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"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.

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Title: The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3), author: Charles James Wills, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42167/42167-h/42167-h.htm

Everything showed a rapid flight; even the would-be dinner of the guerrillas was found half cooked.

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Title: The Courier of the Ozarks, author: Byron A. Dunn, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35207/35207-h/35207-h.htm

Next night at dinner I proposed Sir Alister's health, and we all drank to him and his "bride-to-be."

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While a one-step was in full swing some would-be wag suddenly turned off all the lights.

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And hand-painting it allus seemed to me, is really elocution in oils; for a _be_-yutiful picture is a silent talker.

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Title: The Soldier of the Valley, author: Nelson Lloyd, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17156/17156-h/17156-h.htm

The fun, when the school broke up for the term, was of the never-to-_be_-forgotten variety.

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Title: The Mystery at Putnam Hall, author: Arthur M. Winfield, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17636/17636-h/17636-h.htm

He is a stranger to affectation—that dangerous rock to the would-be wit; he is natural, and is witty without trying to be a wit.

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And if he ever saw one, his corpse-to-be was a methodical little piece of humanity.

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Title: Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942, author: Various, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38466/38466-h/38466-h.htm

He flattered himself that by timely suggestion he had stumped at least half a dozen would-be candidates for Mildreds hand.

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Title: The Fifth String , author: John Philip Sousa, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/29481/29481-h/29481-h.htm

"This is the blankest, rummiest blank go ever I was in," muttered the would-be iconoclast.

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