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  • I saw by the Baronet's clouded brow that he was deeply hurt by what he regarded as our desertion.

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • Lestrade thrust his brandy-flask between the Baronet's teeth, and two frightened eyes were looking up at us.

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • He tied her up, therefore, that she might have no chance of warning Sir Henry, and he hoped, no doubt, that when the whole countryside put down the Baronet's death to the curse of his family, as they certainly would do, he could win his wife back to accept an accomplished fact and to keep silent upon what she knew.

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • Never mind that I was halfway across town delivering a letter to one of the Baronet's girlfriends when she did it.

    Bitter Gold Hearts Cook, Glen 1988

  • It had more than once occurred to her active mind that such might be the manner in which the Baronet's life would terminate.

    Vellenaux A Novel

  • Moving around the back of the Baronet's chair she came between him and

    Vellenaux A Novel

  • The present Baronet's childhood was nursed in profligacy and excess.

    Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

  • Even Mrs. Fraudhurst, always courteous and polite since his exodus from her scholastic charge, was now more affable and condescending than ever to the Baronet's _protégé_; but she could afford to be so, for she well knew that he was about to be swept from her path, for years, perhaps forever.

    Vellenaux A Novel

  • I had gone through so much excitement during the day that this comparative inaction was a positive relief, and I was really beginning to enjoy a sort of repose, when the Baronet's horrid voice from the bottom of the table aroused me once more to an agony of shame and despite.

    Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

  • From church we invariably proceeded to the kennel, where a stout, healthy-looking keeper paraded the Baronet's pointers and setters for the inspection of the ladies.

    Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

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