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in a body – (
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wishing to put it pleasantly – (
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every little helped – (
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To which one may you be alluding? – (
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I would join him in a pipe – (
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so as to save expense – (
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your hair doesn’t stand on end – (
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a water-rate collector – (
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that’s the sort of thing we have to put up with – (
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I think I ought to know – (
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clearing my character from injurious suspicion – (
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The sweetness of his disposition would not strike the casual observer at first glance. – (
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in tones implying that the question could admit of no negative – (
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with the air of a long-bafled connoisseur – (
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especially if you are not used to it – (
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confound foolhardiness with courage – (
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he wouldn’t hurt a worm – (
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Can’t we hush it up? – (
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to keep the animal carefully confined to the house – (
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that conception he insisted on living up to with – (
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from the very first – (
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until you have made him quite savage – (
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it never fails – (
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Wish I’d never had the d – dog now! – (
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Shame! – (
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both taken into custody – (
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in the old crinoline days – (
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upsetting the whole stock-in-trade – (
