Kenwigs

She turned her head on one side and stared intently at the long plaits of hair which trailed over the pillow -- her "Kenwigs" as she had dubbed them, after Charles

More about Pixie George de Horne Vaizey 1887

'Uncle,' said Mrs Kenwigs, 'to think that you should have turned your back upon me and my dear children, and upon Kenwigs which is the author of their being -- you who was once so kind and affectionate, and who, if anybody had told us such a thing of, we should have withered with scorn like lightning -- you that little Lillyvick, our first and earliest boy, was named after at the very altar!

Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841

‘Uncle,’ said Mrs Kenwigs, ‘to think that you should have turned your back upon me and my dear children, and upon Kenwigs which is the author of their being — you who was once so kind and affectionate, and who, if anybody had told us such a thing of, we should have withered with scorn like lightning — you that little Lillyvick, our first and earliest boy, was named after at the very altar!

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

Kenwigs underwent violent Agitation, and how Mrs Kenwigs was as well as could be expected

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Kenwigs, who was rubbing his head very hard, and looking much bewildered by his tumble.

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Kenwigs had not had hers, as she was all chastity, purity, and truth, and

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Mr Crowl, with a look of some contempt, was about to enter a general protest against the payment of rates or taxes, under any circumstances, when he was checked by a timely whisper from Kenwigs, and several frowns and winks from Mrs K., which providentially stopped him.

Nicholas Nickleby 2007

Kenwigs; ‘the little girl, who was watching the child, being tired I suppose, fell asleep, and set her hair on fire.’

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This was nothing less than the sudden pouring forth of a rapid succession of the shrillest and most piercing screams, from an upper story; and to all appearance from the very two – pair back, in which the infant Kenwigs was at that moment enshrined.

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Kenwigs, and indeed from the very grasp of the water – rate collector, who was eyeing the contents of the tumbler, at the moment of its unexpected abstraction, with lively marks of pleasure visible in his countenance.

Nicholas Nickleby 2007