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1 "Oh, stay," she added, "and unsay it all—unsay it all and give no reason, and it shall be as though it were never said."

2 I was trying to unsay my foolish remark about lawyers.

3 What is said cannot be unsaid.

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4 She would not unsay the gruel, because she was sure this kind-hearted woman would take pleasure in getting it for her.

5 Thus Picardy is famous for “hot heads;” and the Norman for son dit et son d�dit, “his saying and his unsaying!”

6 "Either unsay those words or else swallow them!"

7 While as for me, if I ever said to myself, ‘no woman can be of much good to a man as a real companion,’ I’m ready to unsay it.”

8 But as soon as I said it, I couldn't unsay it.

9 Mr. Hughes forgets—or does he forget?—that in the sequel to this poem, entitled Sixty Years After, Tennyson unsays all the high-pitched dispraise of Amy and her squire.

10 Third, and more important, I didn’t want to say anything that I would have to unsay later.

11 Go, then, go, insatiate boy, Nor me longer seek t' annoy: I've said it, nor shall e'er unsay: Go to thy mother, and there play.

12 But he cannot truly unsay what was said.

13 "Step into the light again, that your face may unsay the cowardly words of your tongue!"

14 the witness tried to unsay the very testimony that he had given a few days earlier

15 I'm fond of her too, Frank, and have seen enough to-night—and before—to convince me that she would give a vast deal to unsay those thoughtless words.

16 “Oh Excellency––your words are apostate––unsay them and tempt not Almighty Power!”

17 Galliano can’t unsay or undo the gross, offensive things that happened two years ago.

18 "Be advised, young gentleman; unsay your words, and go your way," said an elder one of the party; while he added in a whisper, "De Beauvais has no equal in Paris with the small sword."

19 But having said it, he spent the rest of the campaign unsaying it.

20 She unsays her words, she gives herself the lie, she says to the children, “Be old!”

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