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  • When we do, we should see if the Addisons next door still have that super keen Avanti!

    100 Mysteries: Marcus Welby May Be Nuts – The Bleat. 2009

  • It was in vain that the Addisons, Sledds, Kingslands,

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  • She had heard that the Cowperwoods were people of wealth, that they were friendly with the Addisons, and that they were going to build a two-hundred-thousand-dollar mansion.

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  • Addisons, was in society, but only as a minor figure.

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  • But the Addisons were socially unassailable, if not all-powerful, and so the best had to be made of that.

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  • Here, because he thought it was only courteous, and not because he thought it was essential or wise at this time to attempt a social onslaught, he invited the Addisons and one or two others whom he felt sure would come — Alexander

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  • "Detective Vail mentioned a couple of your neighbors, the Addisons and Shpritzes," she said.

    Body Wave Cohen, Nancy J, 2002

  • She lucked out a few doors down where she found a mailbox emblazoned with the Addisons 'name.

    Body Wave Cohen, Nancy J, 2002

  • It was while the Addisons were living here that Commodore Kennon was so tragically killed on the _Princeton_.

    A Portrait of Old George Town Grace Dunlop Peter

  • I was a great deal the better in all these respects after we moved to Homewood, owing to the Addisons.

    Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919 1920

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