how came you so

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   A very little man, very 'how came you so,' / Went home on a dingy night; / It was past twelve o'clock, he'd a long way to go, / And he walk'd like a crab, left and right.

   1850, William Mark Clark, Clark's Orphean Warbler, page 258

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   Wine took a large part in the Egyptian ritual, […] and in private life women were not restricted in its use. In fact, the ungallant Egyptians have left behind them several delineations of ladies in a decided state of "how came you so?"

   1892, James Mew, John Ashton, Drinks of the World, volume 1, page 16