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Examples
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“Hold your tongue, you she-dog,” said Captain Bosvile.
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There are no gypsies (except towards the end of the book a reference to his meeting with Captain Bosvile), no bruisers, the pope is scarcely mentioned, and "gentility-nonsense" is veiled almost to the point of elimination.
The Life of George Borrow Jenkins, Herbert 1912
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The collier [on] {271g} the ass gives me the real history of Bosvile.
George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897
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'I don't mean that,' cried Miss Whichello, laying a finger on her sister's certificate, 'but Jentham as Bosvile married Annie in 1869.'
The Bishop's Secret Fergus Hume 1895
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They were both legally perfect, and he saw plainly that however badly Bosvile might have behaved afterwards to Ann Bosvile she was undoubtedly his wife.
The Bishop's Secret Fergus Hume 1895
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'I don't want to hear about the gipsies,' interrupted Miss Whichello, cutting short the doctor's disquisition; 'all I know is, that if Bosvile or Jentham, or whatever he called himself, is a sample of them, they are
The Bishop's Secret Fergus Hume 1895
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George Pendle shot that Bosvile sure enough, an 'ef y'arsk me, dearie, it was the son -- the captain -- the sodger.
The Bishop's Secret Fergus Hume 1895
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'This man as Bosvile married your sister in 1869, as Krant he married Mrs Pendle in 1870.'
The Bishop's Secret Fergus Hume 1895
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'She knows nothing, my lord, save that Bosvile, for his own purposes, took the names of Amaru and Jentham at different times.
The Bishop's Secret Fergus Hume 1895
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'Bosvile was the man's true name, therefore he was legally your sister's husband.
The Bishop's Secret Fergus Hume 1895
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