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  • On our walks abroad, which soon became daily, he would sometimes (after duly warning me to keep the matter dark from "Aadam") skulk into some old familiar pot-house, and there (if he had the luck to encounter any of his veteran cronies) he would present me to the company with manifest pride, casting at the same time a covert slur on the rest of his descendants.

    The Wrecker 1898

  • His shop had burned down — was it someone among us (because Aadam was an other) or was it a faulty electrical connection?

    The Night We Saw Shehenshah 2010

  • I didn't know how to ride a bicycle then but I knew who Aadam was.

    The Night We Saw Shehenshah 2010

  • "Here, Gregg," cried my grandfather, "just a question: What has Aadam got to do with my will?"

    The Wrecker 1898

  • My grandfather took a puff or two in silence: and then, "Ye're makin 'an awfu' poor appearance, Aadam," said he.

    The Wrecker 1898

  • Your mither was always my fav'rite, for A never could agree with Aadam.

    The Wrecker 1898

  • "A believe that; A ken that, Aadam," returned old Loudon dryly; "and the curiis thing is, I'm no very carin '.

    The Wrecker 1898

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