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... look charmingly , " etc. So that we may expect soon to hear , " She seems ignorantly ; " " He became quite crazily , " etc .; and to be unable any longer to make the distinc- tion between " He feels warmly , " and " he feels warm ...
... look charmingly , " etc. So that we may expect soon to hear , " She seems ignorantly ; " " He became quite crazily , " etc .; and to be unable any longer to make the distinc- tion between " He feels warmly , " and " he feels warm ...
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... looks amazin ' different , and smells amazin ' different , I can tell you.- Major Downing , p . 43 . Mr. Magwire is a steady , well - meanin ' man and has got along amazin ' pros- perous in the world ; but he has dreadful curious ...
... looks amazin ' different , and smells amazin ' different , I can tell you.- Major Downing , p . 43 . Mr. Magwire is a steady , well - meanin ' man and has got along amazin ' pros- perous in the world ; but he has dreadful curious ...
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... Look at these bank - bills , " said the stranger ; " keep those that are good , and return me the bad . " " I guess the whole pile are bogus , " said Confidence Bob , as he turned over his roll . - North , The Slave of the Lamp , p . 33 ...
... Look at these bank - bills , " said the stranger ; " keep those that are good , and return me the bad . " " I guess the whole pile are bogus , " said Confidence Bob , as he turned over his roll . - North , The Slave of the Lamp , p . 33 ...
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... looks like a first chop article . Sam Slick in England , ch . 2 . I went to board at a famous establishment in Broadway , where sundry young merchants of the first chop were wont to board . -Perils of Pearl Street . CHORE . A small ...
... looks like a first chop article . Sam Slick in England , ch . 2 . I went to board at a famous establishment in Broadway , where sundry young merchants of the first chop were wont to board . -Perils of Pearl Street . CHORE . A small ...
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... look twice be- fore I could see her at all . —Sam Slick , Human Nature , p . 184 . Cisco . The popular name of a fish of the herring kind which abounds in Lake Ontario , particularly in Chaumont Bay at the east end , where thousands of ...
... look twice be- fore I could see her at all . —Sam Slick , Human Nature , p . 184 . Cisco . The popular name of a fish of the herring kind which abounds in Lake Ontario , particularly in Chaumont Bay at the east end , where thousands of ...
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