growlery

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Lady Tremaine received him in what she called her growlery, with cordiality.

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  • So, when to-morrow came, I went to my guardian after breakfast, in the room that was our town-substitute for the growlery, and told him that I had it in trust to tell him something. —  Bleak House
  • Mr. Jarndyce then withdrawing into the temporary growlery, Miss Jellyby opened a conversation with her usual abruptness. —  Bleak House
  • But I had left some silk downstairs in a work-table drawer in the temporary growlery, and coming to a stop for want of it, I took my candle and went softly down to get it. —  Bleak House
  • Lady Tremaine received him in what she called her growlery, with cordiality. —  Home Again
  • The growlery is the best-used room in the house. —  Bleak House
 

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