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Examples

  • "Lady Alanby spoke of it to Sir Nigel, and I heard Sir Nigel tell her."

    The Shuttle 1907

  • Old Lady Alanby looked out on the passing landscape.

    The Shuttle 1907

  • Thus Lady Alanby, as their carriage turned out of Stornham village.

    The Shuttle 1907

  • Lady Alanby, having been welcomed by him, and led to the most comfortable, tree-shaded chair, found his bearing so elegantly chastened that she gazed at him with private curiosity.

    The Shuttle 1907

  • Lady Alanby held him by her chair for some time, openly enjoying her talk with him, and calling up Tommy, that they might make friends.

    The Shuttle 1907

  • Lady Alanby had heard that the fact that she was with her sister had awakened curiosity and people were talking about her.

    The Shuttle 1907

  • Lady Alanby gazed at him a few seconds, and made no reply whatever.

    The Shuttle 1907

  • Lady Alanby of Dole made a practice of speaking of him in public frequently, always with admiring approval, and in that final manner of hers, to whose authority her neighbours had so long submitted.

    The Shuttle 1907

  • Lady Alanby knows there would be no chance for Tommy then.

    The Shuttle 1907

  • She had sent photographs of Stornham, of Dunholm Castle, and of Dole, and had even found an old engraving of Lady Alanby in her youth.

    The Shuttle 1907

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