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We'll go up to that little dell which is so pretty--the one where we got the lovely flowers.— The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays
She met Mrs. Par-dell, the manicure, the woman who ma says goes around fixing finger nails for fifty cents, and gives you five dollars' worth of gossip, sometimes scandal--to those who like it.— The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors
That Mrs. Par-dell is a dangerous woman!— The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors
Before him, softly lit by a half-moon (the man in it perspiring with curiosity), is a miniature dell, behind which rise threatening rocks, overgrown here and there by grass, heath, and bracken, while in the centre of the dell is a bubbling spring called the Cuttle Well, whose water, as it overflows a natural basin, soaks into the surrounding ground and so finds a way into the picturesque stream below.— Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood
Edward at once did so, and Gaston and Raymond followed him, their agile, cat-like movements being as circumspect as those of the leader himself What they saw as they peeped down into the heart of the dell was a welcome spectacle indeed.— In the Days of Chivalry

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