what do you take me for?
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The look on her face says what do you take me for?
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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Why what do you take me for, good reader?—what can I possibly want with that?—I, who am about to knock over two roebucks and three wolves?
From Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by Jesse, William
Look here, Dick Dewey," said Bradley: "what do you take me for?
From Ben's Nugget A Boy's Search For Fortune by Alger, Horatio
"My dear fellow," said James, "what do you take me for?"
From Love and Lucy by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
Sacré tonnerre! what do you take me for.
From The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
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