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Examples
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And still her mother called Nosey a dear, darling doggie, and her father referred to him with pride as a rugged individualist!
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The rains had ceased, the weather had become warmer, and our spirits rising with this increase in the comfort of our surroundings, a number of us were sitting around "Nosey" -- a boy with a superb tenor voice -- who was singing patriotic songs.
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The rains had ceased, the weather had become warmer, and our spirits rising with this increase in the comfort of our surroundings, a number of us were sitting around "Nosey" -- a boy with a superb tenor voice -- who was singing patriotic songs.
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He loosened his rifle in its holster and called Nosey to heel.
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"He's called Nosey because he's so curious about everyone, " said Miss Trimble.
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By the men on the run they were known as Nosey and Baldy, but in a former stage of their existence, in the days of the Emperor Augustus
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Charles Bowen, alias Nosey, was sentenced to transportation for twenty-five years for appropriating about ten thousand pounds to his own use by means of a forged will.
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Joe Saltzman livens up his piece on "Frank Capra and the Image of the Journalist in American Film" with several stills, one of them from Jimmy Stewart this close to punching out Nosey, that is, Charles Lane.
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He was now the Marquess of Wellington, Grandee of Spain, Duque de Ciudad Rodrigo, Generalissimo of all the Spanish Armies, 'Nosey' to his men, 'the Peer' to his officers, and the man, Sharpe assumed, who had wanted him in Frenada, but the General was not here.
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We had forgotten which was the longer, but as Wellington's was so conspicuous that he was nicknamed "Nosey" by his troops, and as he had won the great battle of Waterloo, we concluded that it was his, and gave him the benefit of the doubt.
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