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“It was almost mockery now to style him Mr. Powell of Forest-hill and Wheatley; for, before he could call these Oxfordshire properties his own, with their joint revenue of 310_l. a year, he had to clear off a debt of 1,400_l. to Sir Robert Pye, and another of 400_l. to one Ashworth, each with heavy arrears of interest.”
“When he was dead our pal on the heaving end got a chair and used it to help him lift Mac-Donald clear off the floor — MacDonald was a big heavy man.”
“Not even after Jancy went to the trouble to clear off a stretch of cluttered, weed-grown land to plant a vegetable garden.”
“Don't tell me you were caught up in that business when the French presidential motorcade got routed clear off the road to Liege and came in three hours late?”
“At this, the wretch offered to buy me and the children of Henry, to clear off his gamblng debts, which stood in the way of his marrying as he wished; -- and he sold us.”
“And 200 yards away, the American sniper was hurled clear off his speeding swampboat, his head snapping backward in a puff of red.”
“The starfighters had disappeared, having been asked by the police of the airport to clear off for a while so as not to bother the spotter plane.”
“Squish Squash grabbed the side of bathroom stall door and tugged it straight down, clear off its hinges.”
“All around the courtway were flower-boxes in the windows; down below, the fountain cheerfully bubbled and gurgled, and from clear off in the unseen rumbled the traffic of the great city.”
“But he yanked on his steering anyway—ramming into the Panhard to his right hard, forcing it clear off the roadway, rightthrough the low guardrail fence…where it shot high into the air, wheels spinning, and went crashing down into the river with a gigantic splash.”
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