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Examples
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Tickler was a wax-ended piece of cane, worn smooth by contact with my tickled frame.
Ten Boys from Dickens Kate Dickinson Sweetser 1903
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He sees the idiocy of an educational system founded on the Greek lexicon and the wax-ended cane; on the other hand, he has no use for the new kind of school that is coming up in the fifties and sixties, the
Collected Essays 1900
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Tickler was a wax-ended piece of cane, worn smooth by collision with my tickled frame.
Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861
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Tickler was a wax-ended piece of cane, worn smooth by collision with my tickled frame.
Great Expectations 1860
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Tickler was a wax-ended piece of cane, worn smooth by collision with my tickled frame.
Great Expectations Charles Dickens 1841
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