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- adverb In a
Dickensian way.
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Examples
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Indeed the real interest for this reader was in the sub-plots involving the sad decline of Keith's sister Violet, and especially the sexually accomplished and Dickensianly-named Gloria Beautyman.
From Steamy Italy to Frozen Fjords Paul Levy 2010
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Indeed the real interest for this reader was in the sub-plots involving the sad decline of Keith's sister Violet, and especially the sexually accomplished and Dickensianly-named Gloria Beautyman.
From Steamy Italy to Frozen Fjords Paul Levy 2010
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Indeed the real interest for this reader was in the sub-plots involving the sad decline of Keith's sister Violet, and especially the sexually accomplished and Dickensianly-named Gloria Beautyman.
From Steamy Italy to Frozen Fjords Paul Levy 2010
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Dickensianly named resident has an encoded story to tell.
News & Politics Patrick Crerand 2010
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Small Enclosed Area have pretty bad name but that's maybe because it reminds me of Robert Tressell's most stupidly Dickensianly named character in
diskant.net 2009
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