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“I'm sure she hasn't done anything of the sort, mind you she's a scatter-brain creature but she rang me yesterday morning in a dreadful state and made me promise to come round at once and ask.”
“For it was plain as a pikestaff whither he was bound, and if he thought he could come round me with his blood-brotherhood fustian, he was well out of court.”
“But, tired of playing, he had desultorily come round the fence, and was rambling up behind her.”
“In the mean while the canal-boats began to come round a point in our rear, poling their way along close to the shore, the breeze having quite died away.”
“In eight minutes 'time he would receive a curt order to come round to 335 degrees, north-westward, the next course laid out by the Navigator to ensure a thorough search of the area.”
“He was furious at having to plead with a mutton-headed soldier (he, Sir George Grey, who alone could save Africa!), but he was in that state where he'd have tried to come round Palmerston's cook.”
“‘I went in, and when I come round the corner where you can see the organ the curtain was pulled back and Mr Harsch fallen down off the stool.’”
“Stobrod would get a figure of notes going and it would come round again and again and after a time it would work a spell on Pangle's mind.”
“How very wonderfully do we see verified, every day, the profound observation of the Hindoo Aries Tottle (as quoted by Pundit) -- 'Thus must we say that, not once or twice, or a few times, but with almost infinite repetitions, the same opinions come round in a circle among men.”
“A simple woman down in Tyngsborough, at whose house I once stopped to get a draught of water, when I said, recognizing the bucket, that I had stopped there nine years before for the same purpose, asked if I was not a traveller, supposing that I had been travelling ever since, and had now come round again; that travelling was one of the professions, more or less productive, which her husband did not follow.”
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